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Awards & Recognition

Awards & Recognition

Awards are not the goal, but they confirm the hammer is guided right. Here is what the documents back up. The rest our work should say for itself.

2011

Zlati ceh

Zlati ceh, the fair's highest award

44th MOS international trade fair, Celje, September 2011. Awarded by the Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia.

A forged fence to a drawing by Klemen Brun. Zlati ceh, the fair's highest award, 2011
The awarded fence segment at our stand. Copper patina, knotted collars, no visible welds.
The commission's statement

The awards commission gave Bruno Kalčič the highest fair award for a segment of forged fence in which the artistic idea and the craft of making are woven into each other. The unique, hand forged fence, made to a drawing by the academic designer Klemen Brun and produced in the forge of Bruno Kalčič, has a look of its own. It also reflects the exceptional mastery that making it requires.

Statement of the OZS awards commission. Published in the chamber magazine Obrtnik, 10/2011, article Three guilds and two awards by Eva Mihelič.

That year the chamber handed out only one gold, one silver and one bronze guild award for the first time. The commission chose from 36 pieces entered by exhibitors at the fair. The gold one came to Blejska Dobrava.

The award was handed over by Štefan Pavlinjek, president of the chamber. The commission was Vlado Mandič, Herman Remic, Franc Kremžar, Edvard Šinkovec, Marko Godec, Miran Gracer and Anton Dremelj. Silver went to Radovan Gregorčič (Eletraart, Sežana), bronze to Janez Tišler (Niros, Cankova).

The awarded fence was forged to a drawing by the academic designer Klemen Brun. The drawing was his, the forging ours. We still work that way. You bring the drawing, we make it in iron.

A fence from this design, installed in Kromberk →

From the ceremony and the fair

The presentation on the fair stage. Štefan Pavlinjek, president of the chamber, hands over the award.
The presentation on the fair stage. Štefan Pavlinjek, president of the chamber, hands over the award.
The Zlati ceh 2011 certificate and the statuette.
The Zlati ceh 2011 certificate and the statuette.
The recipients of the OZS fair awards. Bruno Kalčič on the far left, the president of the chamber on the far right.
The recipients of the OZS fair awards. Bruno Kalčič on the far left, the president of the chamber on the far right.
Our stand in Celje. Behind us the fences that came to the fair from the same workshop.
Our stand in Celje. Behind us the fences that came to the fair from the same workshop.
The certificate as it came from the chamber.
The certificate as it came from the chamber.
Obrtnik, the chamber magazine, issue 10/2011. The page with the three guilds.
Obrtnik, the chamber magazine, issue 10/2011. The page with the three guilds.

The other awards

Hefaiston, 30th international meeting of artist blacksmiths, Helfštýn Castle, Czechia. 2nd prize in the Demonstrated Works category
2011

2nd prize in the Demonstrated Works category

Hefaiston, 30th international meeting of artist blacksmiths, Helfštýn Castle, Czechia · The forged violin

Bruno Kalčič, Gregor Mandeljc

See the piece →

OZS expert commission for home and artistic craft products (opinion no. 7222-08/11). Hand-forged work officially recognised as artistic craft, with the right to the Rokodelstvo Slovenija mark
2011

Hand-forged work officially recognised as artistic craft, with the right to the Rokodelstvo Slovenija mark

OZS expert commission for home and artistic craft products (opinion no. 7222-08/11)

Bruno Kalčič

Hefaiston, 27th international meeting of artist blacksmiths, Helfštýn Castle, Czechia. 3rd prize in the Demonstrated Works category
2008

3rd prize in the Demonstrated Works category

Hefaiston, 27th international meeting of artist blacksmiths, Helfštýn Castle, Czechia · The Blacksmith's Spine

Bruno Kalčič, Gregor Mandeljc

Participations at blacksmithing meets

  1. 2003Hefaiston, Helfštýn Castle. First participation.
  2. 2004Hefaiston. Piece: the dragon.
  3. 2005Hefaiston, and Kovaški šmaren in Kropa.
  4. 2006Kovaški šmaren, Kropa. Piece: the scorpion.
  5. 2007Hefaiston. Piece: Sisyphus.
  6. 2009Hefaiston, Helfštýn Castle.

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