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Anton Bruhin, Bronzeköpfe, 2019
Anton Bruhin (*1949, lives and works in Zurich) draws on a broad palette of topics and media in his artistic work. His oeuvre consists of portrait and landscape paintings, collections of palimpsests that he has realized as books, reliefs created from Lego building blocks, and many other things. Although he remains offline until today, he already engaged with the possibilities of artistic work with the help of computer programs at a quite early point in time.
Anton Bruhin has been exploring realistic and archetypal forms of presenting heads and faces in various series and techniques for decades. In 2019, an extensive, still open series of «heads consisting of formwork panels» has been created within this context. He has commercially available concrete formwork panels with their characteristic materiality and color cut to size based on lists of parts available at the hardware store, and assembles them precisely in his studio to create diverse representations of heads. He thus sounds out the boundaries between figuration and abstraction when portraying human beings in a stringently limited vocabulary of forms.
For the St.Gallen Museum Night in 2019, the Sitterwerk Foundation produced individual objects from this series in bronze in the open casting method at the Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen AG.
The two works “Bronze Head” can be seen in the exhibition “Anton Bruhin – Hauptsache” in the Haus für Kunst Uri from 7 March–17 May 2020.
Anton Bruhin
Lachender, 2019
Bronze head
Number 2019.07.27
500 × 200 × 140 mm
Solid bronze, open casting method
Unique work
CHF 15’000.00
Anton Bruhin
Quadratmaul, 2019
Bronze head
Number 2019.06.20
500 × 200 × 140 mm
Solid bronze, open casting method
Unique work
CHF 15’000.00