Die Ringe des Karl Fritsch
Book
/
Artists
Published: 27.01.2010
Karl Fitsch
- Edited by:
- Braunbook Publisher
- Edited at:
- Munich
- Technical data:
- 100 pages,soft cover, colour and sepia images, 22.5 x 15 cm
- ISBN / ISSN:
- 978-3-00-029583-6
Not for sale at Klimt02.

Karl Fritsch presents his last publication, a book of 100 pages with a selection of more than 100 different rings.
What I find really fascinating, and one of the reasons why it’s so interesting to make jewellery, is the moment of recognition when something that comes across as cute and pretty, has on second glimpse an almost obscene grotesqueness. I would say this quality probably works best in jewellery, where politeness and cold-blooded anger can clash mercilessly into one another.
Karl Fritsch
In George Perec's novel A Void, which he wrote entirely without the letter 'e', there's a story about a ring. Perec compares it to a scab, because it has almost become part of the body with age and wear. Karl Fritsch's rings have that quality. It's like inverse alchemy. He uses precious materials and turns them into childish, rough objects that look like they've come out of a candy machine. They're so immediate you can see the fingerprints. A Karl Fritsch ring is like an heirloom, something your great-grandmother might have worn.
Francis Upritchard
Karl Fritsch
In George Perec's novel A Void, which he wrote entirely without the letter 'e', there's a story about a ring. Perec compares it to a scab, because it has almost become part of the body with age and wear. Karl Fritsch's rings have that quality. It's like inverse alchemy. He uses precious materials and turns them into childish, rough objects that look like they've come out of a candy machine. They're so immediate you can see the fingerprints. A Karl Fritsch ring is like an heirloom, something your great-grandmother might have worn.
Francis Upritchard
Karl Fitsch
- Edited by:
- Braunbook Publisher
- Edited at:
- Munich
- Technical data:
- 100 pages,soft cover, colour and sepia images, 22.5 x 15 cm
- ISBN / ISSN:
- 978-3-00-029583-6
Not for sale at Klimt02.
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