|
Monika Brugger |
|
Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h 137 avenue Laurier Ouest, Montréal (Québec),H2T 2N6 Téléphone : 514-840-9362 Courriel : info@galerienoelguyomarch.com |
|
Goldsmith - artist | Teacher in history of classical and contemporain jewellery and Professor at the ENSA (Ecole national superière d'art) Limoges-Aubusson. She lives ant work in Paimpont, France. Born on 25 December 1958 in Wehr, in the Black Forest. She did the foundation course at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung, Pforzheim, in 1977-1978. In October 1978 she left Germany, and spent the next few years working in agriculture, then in tourism with the youth hostel movement. In the autumn of 1990 she returned to her “vocation’’, studying in Antwerp, Florence and the Ateliers de Fontblanche in Nîmes, and gratuated in 2004 with a master in Applied Art at the University Sorbonne 1 in Paris Since then, besides carrying on her own work, she has been teaching the theoretical and practical aspects of jewellery. In particular, she runs courses on the history of classical and contemporary jewellery, accompanied by lectures. Between 1992 and 1996 she ran the Workshop Sospel, and in 2007 she was one of the founders of the association "la garantie". She has been a guest speaker at venues across Europe, and regularly teaches at AFEDAP, Paris, ESAD, Strasbourg and, since 2007, ENSA, Limoges-Aubusson, where she runs the jewellery and enamel workshop. She is the curator for the exibition un peu de terre sur la peau, de la Fondation d'entreprise Bernardaud in Limoges in 2010. Monika Brugger has exhibited in galleries and museums in many European and North American countries, and her work has been presented in a number of books: Design Sourcebook: Jewellery by David Watkins, New Holland Publishers; KORU 1, Etelä-Karjalan Museo, Lappeenranta; 500 Brooches, Lark Books; Beccy Clarke and Indigo Clarke, New Directions in Jewellery II, Black Dog Publishing. and in 2009 the monograph arround her works Monika Brugger Heimat, by Arnoldsche Arts Publishers, Stuttgart (D)
She designed the piece of jewellery in 2003 that was presented to the donors from Forum für Schmuck und Design e.V. in Bonn. Her works have been acquired by, among others, the musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, the Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris, the Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, the Rotasa Collection Trust, USA and the Berner Stiftung für Angewandte Kunst, Berne. Monika Brugger was awarded CNAP research grants in 2000 and 2004and the editorial support in 2008. She was a guest of the Berne canton at the Künstlerwohnung in Bienne in 2001, and in 2006 she had residencies at the Bengel Stiftung in Idar-Oberstein and Pro Artibus in Ekenäs, Finland, besides participating in the 11th Erfurter Schmucksymposium.
Touché par…|Touched by… 2008 Broche | Brooch Argent, or, fer | Silver, gold, iron L. 3,64 cm (pour la partie en argent | for the part in silver) Fonte à cire perdue | Lost wax casting 1/7 |