Kim Buck
Jeweller
Published: 29.09.2020
buck.dkPendant: My Chinese Lucky Charm, 2020
Golden wood, 999 gold, red silk.
4.3 x 7.3 x 1 cm
This piece is a little bat, bat is "bat (animal)"，"bat（animal） " is "蝠fu" in Chinese, "蝠fu" sounds "福fu", "福fu" means lucky, and In Chinese culture, bat（animal）means lucky.
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Pendant: My Chinese Lucky Charm, 2020
Golden wood, 999 gold, red silk.
4.3 x 7.3 x 1 cm
Alternative view.
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Brooch: Little Mirror and Little Mirror 2, 2007, 2019
Mirror polished stainless steel.
Photo by: Kim Buck
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Pendant: Puffed Up, 2017
999.9 gold.
8.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Kim Buck
From series: Puffed Up
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Pendant: Puffed Up, 2017
999.9 gold.
90 x 45 x 18 cm
Photo by: Kim Buck
From series: Puffed Up
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Pendant: Crossing Borders, 2016 - 2017
Recycled beer can (aluminium).
From series: Crossing Borders
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Pendant: Tuborg Pilsner, 2016
Recycled beer can (aluminium).
3.4 x 1.9 x 1.4 cm
From series: Beer Can Jewelry
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Pendant: Heineken 5.0, 2016
Recycled beer can (aluminium).
3.4 x 1.9 x 1.4 cm
From series: Beer Can Jewelry
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Pendant: Lifesaver, 2014
Cork, polyester, acrylic, metal.
9 x 49 cm (with string)
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Pendant: Lifesaver, 2014
Cork, polyester, acrylic, metal.
9 x 49 cm (with string)
The piece in context.
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Installation: Precious Stone, 2013
Stone, sterling silver, string.
From series: Precious Stone
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Pendant: Precious Stones, 2013
Red granite 253 ct, sterling silver.
4.7 x 3.7 x 2.1 cm
From series: Precious Stones
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Object: Give Us All Our Daily Bread - Loaf pan, 2012
Stainless steel.
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Ring: Pumpous Colour, 2012
Pure silver, powder coating.
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Ring: Fix and Wear, 1996 - 2009
750 gold, diamond.
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Ring: Gold, Jewellery, Gold, Jewellery, Gold, 2008
Gold
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Pendant: Daisy, freely after Niels Heidenreich, 2007
Ceramics, plexi glass.
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Piece: Preparations 38-583A-C, 2007
Gold, plexi glass.
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Necklace: Pearls and Swine, 2007
Pearl, 18k gold, stainless steel.
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Brooch: Gold Heart, Signa-Intima, 2005
Silver
Piece view.
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Pendant: Faith, Hope and Love, 2005
Silver, gold plated.
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Brooch: Nothing New Under the Sun, 2004
Silver, gold plated.
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Bracelet: Gold Bracelet, 2003
Gold
Piece view.
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Brooch: Solitaire-Ring and Pearl-Earings, 2003
Gold
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Brooch: String Of Pearls With Gold Claps, 2003
Gold, silver.
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Object: It's The Thought That Counts, 2001
Cibatool, diamond.
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Pendant: Unika Figures, 1997
Silver
Alternative view.
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Kim Buck is not only a goldsmith but a maker illustrating and rewriting the perceptions of what defines jewelry, while at the same time dismantling its boundaries. Having owned his studio and gallery in the historical center of Copenhagen since 1989, Kim's experience also includes teaching as a professor at various educational institutions and participating in both solo and group exhibitions, and museum collections around the world.
Statement
Though Kim's jewelry lives as a testament of technical research, it is equally relevant that the pieces are contemporary in their material, expressions, and questions raised. Kim dares to reflect the common values associated with jewelry, in efforts to rewrite and possibly rearrange. Yet, at the same time and with equal intention, creating jewelry that longs to be worn.Crossing Borders, 2016 - 2017
Pendants made from used beer cans.
The refund system, which is quite a simple system that ensures that materials are recycled, breaks down when you cross borders in Europe. The good intention does not survive a border crossing. I use beer cans as a symbol of all the other good intentions, that in recent years, crashes when you cross the borders in Europe.
Every pendant is made with the material from one beer can. They are made with "potato casting" a form of lost wax casting where you use the steam pressure from the most of the surface of a halved potato to force the molten aluminium into the mold. This is necessary because of the high surface tension of molten aluminium. The cooling time is controlled so that the metal forms visible crystals on the surface when cooling down. The only post-processing is that I cut off the sprue and put my name stamp in.
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