156:. Reviewing the exhibition Douglas Standring wrote 'Kobi Bosshard has long been regarded as one of our best jewellery-makers, but this exhibition at the Manawatu Art Gallery confirms his position amongst the still small group of local craftsmen and women who are making more than craft'. Standring went on to describe the formal qualities of Bosshard's work ('each piece of jewellery is a highly focused design and this accounts for the austere, classical strain in his work') and note a new boldness in recent work:
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jewellery (solidity, the concealment of clasps and pins, the focus on the materials) are inverted: space becomes the dominant feature, and the lines which define themselves in that space. Thus the brooch pin is liberated from its usual role as practical appendage and becomes simply another line in space; an integral part of the design.
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The launch of Fluxus was motivated by 'frustration with limited access to customers and a faith in the future of contemporary jewellery'. The name 'Fluxus' was chosen 'for two reasons: for its reference to the 'flowing' agent, like Borax, that goldsmiths use and for the idea of flux, or change, which
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Bosshard has exhibited in a number of exhibition throughout New Zealand, and sells his work regularly through craft and jewellers' shops. He feels that, as a craft jeweller, he has considerable advantage over commercial jewellers, in that he is independent, and can design and work where and when
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When goldsmiths Kobi
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A new set of brooches particularly display a bolder stroke — making, mixing an urban visual zap with
Bosshard's habitual coolness. The key piece here is an experiment with free form and a larger scale: a lineal strip of silver is bent into a striking electric signature. The usual conventions of
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I have to make a piece of jewellery before I know what it looks like. My hands and material know what they are doing: the jewellery has to feel right or it's not successful. I try not to let my mind get in the way. I don't want to end up thinking I am smart and clever and using
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My love of metal came from him and Fluxus as at art school I’d majored in 'hard media' (stone, wood, bone, glass, plastic etc) as opposed to metal. This is a love affair that I can’t let go of. He imbued me with a sense of the history of working with
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European-trained jewellers who came to New Zealand in the 1960s and transformed contemporary jewellery in the country; others include
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exhibition of contemporary New Zealand jewellery. In 1996 he curated the second New Zealand Jewellery Biennial, titled
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