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Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Erganzung des Originals Art in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen acknowledged for fine arts and art installation design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Erganzung des Originals Art by Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Erganzung des Originals Art
White veins in river stones lead to random patterns on the surfaces. The selection of certain river stones and their arrangement transforms these patterns into symbols, in form of Latin letters. This is how words and sentences are created when stones are in the right position next to each other. Language and communication arise and their signs become a supplement to what is already there.
About Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen
His work is based on the captivated gaze, which can be used to capture reality in all its facets and weave new patterns of interpretation from them. Everyday objects transformed into surprising moments through his gaze, creating bold levels of meaning between art, design and transcendance. The accidental and seemingly incidental become concrete and form their very own statements. André Quirinus Zurbriggen teaches the viewer of his works, to see things with fresh eyes. His objects speak to the innermost part of the observer and repeatedly testify to the distant relationship between everything that is created and between all creatures.
Award Record
Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Entries typically include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. Awarded art designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/fine-art
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/115988
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/115988
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!115988
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/293850
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.quirinus.ch
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Erganzung des Originals Art
- Function
- Art
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Gray, Silver and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen
- Country
- Switzerland
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #115988
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photogrpher and Creator Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen, The Stone Alphabet, 2017.; Photogrpher and Creator Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen, Game by the stream, 2021.; Photogrpher and Creator Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen, The Alphabet with stone greetings on an iPad, 2021.; Photogrpher and Creator Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen, Stone on Head, 2020.; Photogrpher and Creator Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen, Game by the stream, 2018. Videokredite: Creator Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen, Stone Greetings, 2021.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Quirinus observes and identifies the unique artistic potential of natural materials. He rearranges stones and puts them into a new context, a new destiny. Their substance gains a new expression witch becomes a supplement of the original. What differs from other artists is that for him it is not the handicraft that is in the foreground, but the way you look at things.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration is based on a five-year trip around the world. In Indonesia Quirinus lived with indigenous people and was allowed to participate in ritual practices. There he learned to deal with found objects. Objects are not just dead, they come with a little attention to life, even if it's just a small stone. After his return he implemented his experience with natural stones. Quirinus wanted to test if it is possible to find what he believed in and what he is looking for. In the end, he went far and asked himself: Is the stone looking for me?
- Research
- The artistic works revolve around belief, the act of seeing and the gaze. He views art less than the production of something new, but more as an appreciation of the existing, which is not yet consciously noticed. In his view, conscious appreciation means realizing that something is looking at us, even though it is just a small stone. If picked up, it is a stone. If put down, it becomes a sign and, last but not least, word and language. But how is it possible to share this experience with other people? Quirinus released a stone typewriter and published it on his website.
- Challenge
- The hardest part of stone work has always been not to lose confidence to find the last letter for completion. The stone collection includes all upper and lower case letters, all numbers and characters. A search that was necessary to implement the idea of realizing a stone typewriter. A contribution on the subject of communication between nature and culture.
- Realization and Technology
- Found stones communicate with the viewer of this work. The presentation of the stone alphabet consists of two parts. Firstly, the stone alphabet is presented in a glass showcase. As discussed with the Support, there is the possibility to use the showcase from the event. Secondly, an iPad stands in front of the glass showcase and shows a short movie in a loop (See the uploaded video.) A supplement to the Alphabet is the work, stone on head. Wild and fearful, but calm in this constellation. An extraordinary question that arises when the gaze meets his eye socket: Hello, who are you?
- Operation and Interaction
- One of the most impressive works by Andre Quirinus Zurbriggen is the stone alphabet. This work is an experiment in communication and is not only used for writing and exchanging stone messages over the internet. His work is also intended to remind the viewer to look at nature with open eyes in order to see things in a new way. Found objects also reveal information about a past that is not yet complete, but can be rediscovered at any time.
- Project Duration and Location
- Quirinus started exploring stones in 2006 and he is still doing so. In June 2019 he exhibited at arts laboratory Malamegi Lab 12 in Milan. In August 2019 he exhibited his project at Swiss Art Expo in Zürich. In 2020 he exhibited at Schützenlaube in Visp. The original stones with letters and faces were so far never exposed to an audience.
- Specifications
- Single stone, Diameter mm 50, the whole Alphabet, Width mm 1600, or two rows of, mm 800. IPad, Width mm 250 Height mm 200. Metal stand for IPad, Height mm 1000. Stone on head is presented on a white wooden column, Width mm 200 Depth mm 200 Height mm 1600.
