Karl Fritsch (b. 1963), master of extravagant rings, returns with a publication that lures us deep into his world. Ruby Gold is a “no-frills” pared-back book, without pagination, without essays. Instead it comprises eighty-one rings from the past twenty years. In between the detailed illustrations, Fritsch brings the rings and fingers into ironic dialogues with each other: “Ring: I am art. / Finger: Oh come on…” And: “Ring: I am a ring. / Finger: You are unwearable.”

Karl Fritsch carves in silver, shapes in gold, sets rubies and zirconias as a child would decorate a cake—with self-confidence and with no regard for waste.

ISBN

978-3-89790-614-3

Publisher

arnoldsche Art Publishers