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Luzia Vogt

Awarded

Luzia Vogt

'Spuren', about 60 individual pieces (bowls, brooches, rings), (diploma work)

Jewellery and Objects

Jury report

Reassessing the banal
Who would have thought of wearing an ordinary plastic comb you could buy in any shop as a piece of jewellery? Scarcely anyone. Unless it were turned into a poetic object in the hands of jeweller designer Luzia Vogt. The charm of these items of jewellery is that it is possible to recognize the banal origins of the material even after it has been radically reshaped. Everyday throwaway material like shower-gel or shampoo containers that scarcely anyone would keep acquire new and surprisingly organic and sensual forms as a result of Vogt's transformations. For example, the originally purple comb with its hard teeth was heated and shaped into a circle so that the teeth now point inside the circle and touch each other. The object is now soft and smooth. There shaped comb then changes completely into the exquisite, unique brooch, eminently wearable, when Luzia Vogt combines plastic with precious material like gold or silver. Thus 'high' and 'low' meet in her highly individual jewellery creations.
Luzia Vogt seeks out used objects as the starting-point for her work. She is interested in things that are worn, in civilization's leftovers, in traces and in things that could perhaps have associations in personal memory. The found objects are reshaped, curved, stretched or melted using traditional jewellery manufacturing methods. These irreversible processes create jewellery that provokes gently and exudes refreshing humour. The time-consuming manual work she invests in the working process so tenaciously can also be seen in other objects: she works on gold coins or tin cans with a hammer until she has created expensive-looking, thin-walled vessels. Here recycling is not just done for the sake of saving material, but so that found everyday objects can enjoy a surprising second life by being transformed.
Peter Stohler

Biography

Luzia Vogt
Born in
1971
Education
Designerin FH

Web

www.luziavogt.ch

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