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    Otto Kunzli

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    Kunzli created an iconic brooch in the shape of a heart with large Mickey Mouse ears that questions American icons and values. Inspired by Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and the superhero Batman, whom Kunzli argues is "abysmally evil", the brooch references popular culture through metaphor and challenges perceptions. As a Swiss-trained artist, Kunzli explores philosophical and conceptual ideas through his jewelry designs, pushing the limits of the medium. He is known for unconventional materials and finding new ways to use traditional materials to provoke thought about cultural symbols and society.

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    Kunzli created an iconic brooch in the shape of a heart with large Mickey Mouse ears that questions American icons and values. Inspired by Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and the superhero Batman, whom Kunzli argues is "abysmally evil", the brooch references popular culture through metaphor and challenges perceptions. As a Swiss-trained artist, Kunzli explores philosophical and conceptual ideas through his jewelry designs, pushing the limits of the medium. He is known for unconventional materials and finding new ways to use traditional materials to provoke thought about cultural symbols and society.

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    Kunzli created an iconic brooch in the shape of a heart with large Mickey Mouse ears that questions American icons and values. Inspired by Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and the superhero Batman, whom Kunzli argues is "abysmally evil", the brooch references popular culture through metaphor and challenges perceptions. As a Swiss-trained artist, Kunzli explores philosophical and conceptual ideas through his jewelry designs, pushing the limits of the medium. He is known for unconventional materials and finding new ways to use traditional materials to provoke thought about cultural symbols and society.

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    Otto Kunzli

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    Kunzli created an iconic brooch in the shape of a heart with large Mickey Mouse ears that questions American icons and values. Inspired by Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and the superhero Batman, whom Kunzli argues is "abysmally evil", the brooch references popular culture through metaphor and challenges perceptions. As a Swiss-trained artist, Kunzli explores philosophical and conceptual ideas through his jewelry designs, pushing the limits of the medium. He is known for unconventional materials and finding new ways to use traditional materials to provoke thought about cultural symbols and society.

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    Künzli’s minimalist, yet meticulously crafted work references cultural phenomena, utilising the

    power of metaphor and iconography with wit and sophistication.


    The reason I'm so passionate about his work is because of the way he looks at jewelry, exploring
    the limits of jewelry and exposing the philosophical side of jewelry
    This 'dark' Mickey Mouse brooch was made by the Swiss-trained Otto Kunzli (born 1948),

    . Kunzli created this iconic brooch after time spent in America, as part of a body of work that
    questions American icons and values. A combination of a heart shape and large Mickey Mouse
    ears, it was inspired by Walt Disney's cartoon character Mickey Mouse and the comic superhero
    Batman, who Künzli argues is not a friend of humanity but 'abysmally evil'. 

    Eva Czernis-Ryl, Curator, 2020

    “You could say this is conceptual, but it’s not really,” he says. “I have so much
    humor and so much fun and I never call myself as a conceptual artist. But it’s
    kind of been established, so I stopped fighting it and said ‘OK.’ ”

    “Jewelry is considered the earliest evidence of knowledge storage outside of


    the human brain, which means nothing else but the beginning of cultural
    activities — and that is set as somehow the beginning of being human,” Kunzli
    explains. “Before, older artifacts were tools, practical items — functional.
    (Jewelry) is the beginning of art.”

    And yet, he laments, “So few people analyze jewelry.”

    “One of the few principles of my life is to imagine opposites: I often question


    what I’m doing, or try to find out more about the possibility that I’m
    pursuing,” he says. “I like to question it, chase it around and look at it from a
    different angle.”

    unconventional materials or finding unorthodox approaches to traditional


    materials.

    Of gold, the ubiquitous and yet still coveted material, he says, “It’s now used in
    such an arbitrary way. Literally bulls—- has been made in gold just because
    people are crazy about it.” He wanted to return it to the darkness of rocks and
    so, he says, “I enclosed it in a black band — so you can’t see it.”

    That bangle, “Gold Makes You Blind” (1980),a piece of “statement jewelry”
    that literally comments on gold adornment as a form of investment.

    He constantly reminds us that jewelry always had a purpose — whether


    symbolic, functional, religious or purely decorative — before he deconstructs
    those values to rebuild them in ironic and often humorous forms.
     His work is featured in many public collections,
    including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the
    Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Royal College of Art
    Collection in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
    New York, and the National Museum of Modern Art in
    Tokyo. Künzli is also well known as a teacher, holding a
    20-year position at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste
    München as the Chair in Goldsmiths’ Art. 

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