Im FoCus: Benedict Haener
Exhibition
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09 Mar 2024
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06 Apr 2024
Published: 04.03.2024
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Necklace: Sugar Free Apple, 2023
Glass and resin
57 x 4 x 2 cm
Awarded at: Talente. Masters of the Future Prizes 2024
From series: Kill Your Darling
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Estimated price: 5700 €
The first impression is deceptive - a sentence that probably applies to all of Benedict Haener's conceptual works. Because tinkering, inventing, questioning values, and generating new values are what interest him most on his curious path to the perfect illusion.
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Benedict Haener
As a multiple award-winning goldsmith with a subsequent degree in product and industrial design from the School of Design in St.Gallen and a Bachelor of arts, XS Jewellery, from Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Benedict Haener has excellent tools with which he can realize anything he wants. And he does so with a great deal of humor, irony, and a wonderfully playful lightness.
His sweet and sour fruit gum beauties and sugar cubes do not cause tooth decay and are even unreservedly recommended by dentists. His sandpaper grinds on our perception instead of surfaces. And his monetary added value gives conventional capitalists the shivers.
/Bruna Hauert
The financial resources available in the world are constantly on the move. They are constantly being redistributed. Seen from the outside, capital prefers to go where it can multiply. Sometimes it takes big risks on the stock markets. If there is nothing more to be gained there, capital is drawn to safe, material assets such as gold, art and real estate.
Diamonds, gold, sapphires, and pearls - what we associate with traditional jewelry - appear in new and unusual ways in the KILL YOUR DARLING collection. Familiar everyday objects such as sweet and sour, sugar cubes, and sandpaper are given a creative makeover. Visually, they remain what they are, but through the materialization with diamonds, precious stones, and precious metals, they suddenly become precious jewelry. The resulting irritation makes us think about the value of luxury goods.
/Benedict Haener
Opening: Saturday, March 9 from 12.00 h.
We are delighted that Benedict Haener will be celebrating the opening of his exhibition with us.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Friday 12 - 14 h. and 15 - 18.30 h.
Saturday 11 - 17 h
His sweet and sour fruit gum beauties and sugar cubes do not cause tooth decay and are even unreservedly recommended by dentists. His sandpaper grinds on our perception instead of surfaces. And his monetary added value gives conventional capitalists the shivers.
/Bruna Hauert
The financial resources available in the world are constantly on the move. They are constantly being redistributed. Seen from the outside, capital prefers to go where it can multiply. Sometimes it takes big risks on the stock markets. If there is nothing more to be gained there, capital is drawn to safe, material assets such as gold, art and real estate.
Diamonds, gold, sapphires, and pearls - what we associate with traditional jewelry - appear in new and unusual ways in the KILL YOUR DARLING collection. Familiar everyday objects such as sweet and sour, sugar cubes, and sandpaper are given a creative makeover. Visually, they remain what they are, but through the materialization with diamonds, precious stones, and precious metals, they suddenly become precious jewelry. The resulting irritation makes us think about the value of luxury goods.
/Benedict Haener
Opening: Saturday, March 9 from 12.00 h.
We are delighted that Benedict Haener will be celebrating the opening of his exhibition with us.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Friday 12 - 14 h. and 15 - 18.30 h.
Saturday 11 - 17 h
Friends of Carlotta
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- Phone:
- +41 44 261 87 07
- Management:
- Bruna Hauert
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