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Friart is dedicating a major retrospective to Bernhard Schobinger, the artist at the heart of a revolution in jewelry creation. Revisiting an original oeuvre spanning 50 years, the exhibition pays homage to an independent figure who stands alone in the art of his country and beyond.
From his connections with Concrete art to punk rebellion, from postmodern eclecticism to the smallest of zen-influenced touches, Schobinger’s work testifies to a constant experimentation that belies any hierarchisation of the arts. Making extensive use of formal and technical invention, it holds up the coming together of opposites, the subtle transfiguration of everyday objects charged with individual stories. In the democracy of materials instituted by the artist, noble metals and precious stones sit alongside the waste of industrial civilisation.
On the first floor, the artist presents a new series of works he has been working on for several years. Employing fragments retrieved from the rubble of Berlin, a city destroyed by bombing during the Second World War, it invokes the connections between memory and destruction that shape the artist’s poetics.
Bernhard Schobinger (1946, CH) lives and works in Richterswil (ZH).
The exhibition is organized in close collaboration with the artist and Martina Simeti Gallery, Milan.
Bernhard Schobinger, Japanese Scissor Birds, 2024. Photo Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Zürich Bahnhofstrasse, 1980. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Zwei Holzblöcke, 1985. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Pair of Bracelets, 1981. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Rosenkranz mit Fliegenpilz / Rosary with Toadstool, 1996. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Screw and Shards Necklace Collier, 2015. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Meteoritencollier, 1995. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, We are only really free when we are neatly combed, 1983. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Ohne Titel, 1980. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, M/F Genitals Pair of Rings, 1977. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Ring of Rings, 2022. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, B.S. Kosmos, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistOriginal photos of the publication Bernhard Schobinger, Eiszeit Juwelentraum, 1981. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistOriginal photos of the publication Bernhard Schobinger, Eiszeit Juwelentraum, 1981. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Blumenstrauss, 1980. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Under Water Car Collection, 2023. Photo Fabio Mantegna. Courtesy Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Entgleisung, 1980. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Like a Water Drop, 2012. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Kreuzfahrtschiff, 1987. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Soft Chair, 2000. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Gelbe Spitzen auf grauem Band, 1983. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Gummiring, 1980. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Swiss Made, 2010. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Icecreamlyric, 1983. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Tutti Kabutti, 1980/1981. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Elektro Boogey, 1991. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Agent Orange, 1981. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, We are only really free when we are neatly combed, 1983. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Restverwertung, 1985. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Untitled, n.d. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Cardan Joint Ring, 2013. Photo Fabio Mantegna. Courtesy Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Saw Blade Ring (for Walter Stürm), 1989. Photo Fabio Mantegna. Courtesy Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Nagel-Ring, 2011. Photo Fabio Mantegna. Courtesy Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Snake Ring, 1985. Photo Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Form aus zwei geviertelten Kreisringen, 1974. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Dipole, 1971. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Schachtel mit Multi-Ring, 1970. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Four-Point Ring, 1966. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Cross Ring, 1975. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Lozenge Ring, 1969. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Swiss TV Portrait, 1981Bernhard Schobinger, Swiss TV Portrait, 1981Bernhard Schobinger, Swiss TV Portrait, 1981Bernhard Schobinger, Swiss TV Portrait, 1981Bernhard Schobinger, Swiss TV Portrait, 1981Exhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, Berlin, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, Berlin, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistExhibition view, Bernhard Schobinger, Berlin, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger and Pedro Wirz, Metaphytosis (Bernhard #1), 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistsInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, Berlin, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, Berlin, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, Berlin, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, Berlin, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, Berlin, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistInstallation view, Bernhard Schobinger, Berlin, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Küchen Schilder, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Kreuzberg, 1983. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artistBernhard Schobinger, Fragment necklace, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Legs and shoes, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Legs on chain, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Küchen Schilder, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Flower ring, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Two Broken Baby Faces, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Broken face, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Ear-hanger, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Inside-out, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Parfum flacon ring, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, “Einschuh” hanger, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Hand in hand Kette, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Hand in hand hanger, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti GalleryBernhard Schobinger, Fragment chain, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Martina Simeti Gallery
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