Daniel Kruger: Between Nature and Artifice. Jewellery 1974-2014

Book / Artists Arnoldsche

Published: 11.07.2014

Daniel Kruger: Between Nature and Artifice. Jewellery 1974-2014.

Jorunn Veiteberg
Monika Brugger
Sabine Epple
Cornelie Holzach
Christianne Weber-Stöber
René Pingen

Editor:: Daniel Kruger

Edited by:: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Edited at:: Stuttgart

Technical data:: 264 pages, 256 illustrations in colour and black & white, text in German and English, hardback cover, 21 x 27 cm

ISBN / ISSN:: 978-3-89790-411-8

Price:: from 56 $

Order:: Amazon

Inner pages of the publication

Experimental, unconventional and individual: an irrepressible curiosity and boundless creativity in dealing with materials, forms and techniques are all hallmarks of the work by the jewellery artist Daniel Kruger. The current publication documents the contemporaneity of the diverse possibilities of his expression and opens up a pictorial world of aesthetic pleasure.

Remarks

The publication accompaigns a retrospective exhibition of Daniel Kruger works at the following venues:

GRASSI Museum of Applied Art, Leipzig (DE), 11.12.2014 to 8.3.2015
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, (DE), 27.4. to 28.6.2015
Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, (DE), 10.7. to 27.9.2015
Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, (NL), 17.10.2015 to 24.01.2016

Very rarely does a jewellery artist manage to find new pictorial worlds of such a personal nature during the course of their creative work so freely and unencumbered as Daniel Kruger (born 1951, South Africa). His experiments with the most diverse materials, decoration, forms and structures testify to an exuberant creativity for which he was honoured with the renowned Herbert Hofmann Award for Art Jewellery in 1987 and 2005.

Daniel Kruger uses found objects of every kind and quotes historical forms and decoration. The unusual combinations of materials as well as new interpretations of techniques used in handcraft and textile work lend his jewellery pieces ever surprising new perspectives and aesthetic pleasure as well as a decidedly erotic quality, as he himself puts it.

The works from the last forty years presented in this publication not only illustrate Daniel Kruger’s curiosity with unconventional techniques and materials; they are also an expression of his awareness of nature and artificiality, history and tales, tradition and present: sometimes ironic, at times restrained, but frequently also opulent and sensual.

With contributions by Jorunn Veiteberg, Monika Brugger and Daniel Kruger.

Texts in English and German