THREE OF A PERFECT PAIR
THREE OF A PERFECT PAIR
We live in the Alpine region. It is home to many creative people who draw strength and inspiration from this energetic area. Artists’ paths can quickly cross here. Friendships arise, ideas arise, collaborations arise.
With the THREE OF A PERFECT PAIR project, we are fulfilling a long-held wish to create unique instruments with selected artists who have amazed us for a long time.
Since the release of King Crimson‘s album THREE OF A PERFECT PAIR in 1984, I always had that phrase in my head. What did they mean?
When searching for a title for our artist collaborations, this sentence came to mind again. 40 years later I discovered one meaning of it. And it describes the project perfectly.
Just like logo does. It implements the name ideally by having the distance between the three bars form an equal pair. Sometimes simple is best.
Conrad Jon Godly, a truly outstanding person and artist with a dazzling vita, begins our THREE OF A PERFECT PAIR series.
Once a fashionable photographer in the world of celebrities, he has created an international name for himself over the past two decades as a painter of images that radiate an unbridled power and rawness. Above all, his imposing, extremely thickly applied oil paintings of mountain ranges enjoy a tremendous popularity.
Since the first exhibition in 2008, an extraordinary career has followed. Conrad Jon Godly has exhibited regularly in London, New York, Liechtenstein, China, Singapore, Turkey, Mexico, the Engadine and Japan.
Conrad received two models from our GRINGOBEAT series from us: a bass and a guitar body embedded in a matching wooden frame to create the feeling of the canvas while painting. We didn‘t know how he would react to this starting point with his meditative and impulsive painting style…
Conrad Jon Godly‘s impulsive realization of a sunburst feeling on the basis of oil paint made us pause not only because of the drying of the paint, but also because of the unusual colorfulness and the ecstatic brushstrokes.
It took two years before we were able to respond on an equal footing to his intensive work for the completion. No existing, ubiquitous components were allowed to be used. Our side also had to be impulsive and raw, unfamiliar, to reflect the dynamics of the instrument.
We launched this first project at the end of April 2024 in Montreux, Switzerland. It was an overwhelming success – triggering incredible reactions, astute conversations, discussions «at what point is an instrument also equal to the art world»… In any case, we are already looking forward to further collaborations with outstanding artists.
The goal is to present a THREE OF A PERFECT PAIR instrument approximately every year. There will not always be two instruments and not just electrical instruments. Depending on the artist, we will act and thus underline the process of interaction intuitively decide which instrument we build, the chosen artist is confronted with our choose and reacts with his art and we in turn react to his work when the instrument is returned for completion.
Wonderful challenges lie ahead of us…
OUR LIMITED EDITIONS
Do you appreciate an instrument that is so guaranteed not to exist a second time?
That pushes the boundaries in guitar making or even dissolves them?
This also inspires as an object?
That stands out even from the most exquisite collection?
Then they are here in the right department!
Under LIMITED EDITIONS, we create instruments that are usually not made on behalf of customers, but are always built when we find time and muse for our own and unusual ideas. These are instruments where we let everything run free and want to surprise ourselves with them.