Michael Berger
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Published: 29.01.2021
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Brooch: KAS FP-01, 2020
Stainless steel, 18ct. gold, dichroic glass, micro ball bearings.
5.1 x 5.1 x 2.8 cm
From series: Flower Power
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Ring: RK FP-02, 2019
Stainless steel, 18ct. gold, dichroic glass, micro ball bearings.
5.3 x 5.3 x 4.3 cm
From series: Flower Power
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Ring: RK FP-02, 2019
Stainless steel, 18ct. gold, brass, dichroic glass, micro ball bearings.
5.6 x 5.6 x 4.3 cm
From series: Flower Power
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Ring: RK DG-19. In motley pictures, a political world theater, 2019
Stainless steel, silver, printed paper.
6.2 x 6.2 x 7 cm
From series: Goethe
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Ring: RK DG-18. Gestograph, 2018
Stainless steel, acrylic, brass, rollerball-mine, paper, micro ball bearings.
6 x 6 x 6.8 cm
From series: Goethe
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Ring: RK AS-01, 2014
Stainless steel, 18ct. gold, silver, acrylic, micro ball bearings.
3 x 3 x 4 cm
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Ring: RK DG-13. All roads lead to Rome, 2013
Stainless steel, 18ct. gold, silver, acrylic, micro ball bearings.
4.4 x 4.4 x 3.7 cm
From series: Goethe
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Ring: RK DG-12. Goethe meets Napoleon, 2012
Gold plated silver, stainless steel, wood, micro ball bearings.
3.3 x 3.3 x 4.1 cm
From series: Goethe
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Ring: RK DG-10. Voyage into colour, 2010
Stainless steel, acrylic, color filter foil, paper, micro ball bearings.
5.2 x 5.2 x 5.4 cm
From series: Goethe
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Michael Berger lives and works in Düsseldorf. He began his training in 1987, worked as an assistant to Prof. Friedrich Becker in the 1990s, and has been running his own workshop since 1999. Like his mentor, he has dedicated his work to kinetics.
Kinetics - defined in physics as the dynamics of bodies that are accelerated by forces - is the driving force that makes Berger's pieces so fascinating. It creates the opportunity to interact with the pieces and awakens the instinct to play through a tiny wonderland of physics.
Flower Power series
This group of works starting 2018 is a further development of my kinetic jewelry, in which I experiment with dichroic glasses. The momentum, provided by the wearer through his own movements impulses the rotation of the glass panels, which effectively sets the scene for light refraction, reflection, and the color change effect. A double interplay arises: between the lattice structure and the reflective glass surfaces on the one hand and the piece and the viewer on the other.
Goethe series
These kinetic rings belong to a series of Goethe related pieces made for annual exhibitions of a Düsseldorf based jeweler group called düsselGOLD, founded in 2007. For many years the Goethe Museum Düsseldorf is hosting this exhibition of contemporary jewellery from a group of around 20 makers. The group shows work from their collections and at least one piece specially made for this event to the, annually changing, Goethe related theme.
Flower Power series
This group of works starting 2018 is a further development of my kinetic jewelry, in which I experiment with dichroic glasses. The momentum, provided by the wearer through his own movements impulses the rotation of the glass panels, which effectively sets the scene for light refraction, reflection, and the color change effect. A double interplay arises: between the lattice structure and the reflective glass surfaces on the one hand and the piece and the viewer on the other.
Goethe series
These kinetic rings belong to a series of Goethe related pieces made for annual exhibitions of a Düsseldorf based jeweler group called düsselGOLD, founded in 2007. For many years the Goethe Museum Düsseldorf is hosting this exhibition of contemporary jewellery from a group of around 20 makers. The group shows work from their collections and at least one piece specially made for this event to the, annually changing, Goethe related theme.
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