Kris Ruhs, the prolific artist and designer known primarily for his paintings and sculptures, is honored with a retrospective of his jewelry opening on April 13th, 2010 at Galleria Carla Sozzani .
Born in New York City from a family of German extraction, Ruhs attended the School of Visual Arts. While living in New York City in the late 1970’s, Ruhs’ friendship with legendary jewelry designer Robert Lee Morris of Art Wear lead him to begin to explore his own personal concepts of wearable art.
Ruhs has over the years built up a sizable body of work, each piece hammered, shaped and composed in a way that echoes the artist’s creation of his larger sculptures.
The show presents over 200 pieces gathered from collections around the world. Early bracelets, individually hand carved in ebony, reinforce the artist’s longstanding interest in multiples.
Ruhs artistic curiosity is reflected in mediums as diverse as rope, wood, silver, brass and gold. The organic elements individually fashioned in these materials, when joined together, lead the eye into seeing increasingly complex relationships between the simple shapes he chooses to fashion. On view a series of necklaces, brooches, pendants and body ornaments that parallel Ruhs’ larger projects from his first exhibitions in New York City in the 1980’s into the present.
The show presents over 200 pieces gathered from collections around the world. Early bracelets, individually hand carved in ebony, reinforce the artist’s longstanding interest in multiples.
Ruhs artistic curiosity is reflected in mediums as diverse as rope, wood, silver, brass and gold. The organic elements individually fashioned in these materials, when joined together, lead the eye into seeing increasingly complex relationships between the simple shapes he chooses to fashion.
On view a series of necklaces, brooches, pendants and body ornaments that parallel Ruhs’ larger projects from his first exhibitions in New York City in the 1980’s into the present.
In honor of the occasion, Carla Sozzani Editore has released a commemorative book for the exhibition entitled, “Jewellery” .
The mind behind ’10 corso como’ is a petite golden-haired woman named Carla Sozzani, she owns and is constantly reinventing her unique and ever-expanding mix of selling spaces grouped around a beautiful courtyard, which is closed off from the traffic and brouhaha outside, in the off-center neighborhood in Milan, Italy.
’10 corso como’ was founded in 1991.
Carla Sozzani started out with an initial investment of only $200,000. With the help of her boyfriend, Kris Ruhs, an American artist from New York City, who has designed the logo, some corners of the shop, the 10 Corso Como café and the restaurant, which opened in 1999.
Another big help comes from her look-alike sister, Franca Sozzani, who has been for more than a decade the editor-in-chief of ‘Vogue Italia’ – a magazine that has made it to one of the most revered fashion and style forecasters in the world. A lot of fashion trends you see in the magazine you can find at ’10 corso como’.
carla and kris
