Otto Künzli. The Exhibition

Considered a master of concep­tual jewellery, Swiss artist Otto Künzli has intel­li­gent hands and a mischiev­ous spirit. He makes liberal use of irony to ques­tion the assump­tions of our soci­ety and criti­cise its short­com­ings. He is an icon­o­clast. He plays with symbols and makes free with cultural refer­ences. He uses jewellery as a means of expres­sion, but does not neglect its orna­mental func­tion.

Through the vast range of objects in the exhib­i­tion, visit­ors can immerse them­selves in his sump­tu­ous, gener­ous, crit­ical and witty universe. The mudac, whose collec­tions include several pieces by Otto Künzli, is the only Swiss destin­a­tion on the itin­er­ary of the exhib­i­tion, the first of such scope to be devoted to the artist. Initi­ated by Die Neue Sammlung – The Inter­na­tional Design Museum Munich, where it was presen­ted in spring 2013, it will be trans­fer­ring to the Tokyo Metro­pol­itan Teien Art Museum.