Name: KATHY RUTTENBERG, Collecting Specimens, 2021
Brand: THE A/C.H. PROGRAM
Price: 10000.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Henzel Studio collaborates with leading architects, interior designers and private clients to develop bespoke rugs for residential, hospitality, commercial and cultural environments. Every signature collection by Creative Director and artist Calle Henzel can be adapted in scale, color, material composition and construction, allowing each work to respond to its architectural context while preserving the integrity of the original design.

Works from the Henzel Studio Collaborations program are available in proportionally scaled sizes based on the original composition, ensuring that the artistic vision and conceptual integrity of each collaboration remain intact. Each rug is handcrafted by master artisans using exceptional natural materials and museum-quality craftsmanship, creating enduring works that exist at the intersection of contemporary art, architecture and collectible design.

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Description

KATHY RUTTENBERG, Collecting Specimens, 2021
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
Numbered
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
Hand knotted
Wool, Silk, Lyocell, Nettle
High / Low Cut

Emerging from New York’s early 1980s East Village art scene, Kathy Ruttenberg contributed to the vitality of new figurative expressionism, which offered a vivid counterpoint to the minimalist sculpture and conceptual art that had dominated the 1970s.

Over the past decades, Ruttenberg has worked across painting, sculpture, animation, photography, and books, while becoming particularly recognized for her ceramic sculptures. At the center of her practice is a deeply allegorical form of storytelling, where human, animal, and botanical forms merge into complex psychological narratives.

Ruttenberg’s ceramic tableaux vivants are intricate compositions that appear to tell a complete tale in a single glance, preserved in color, form, and gesture. Since studying ceramics at Greenwich House Pottery in New York in 1998, she has developed an extensive body of work in clay, exhibited internationally at venues including Stefan Stux Gallery, New York; Sladmore Contemporary, London; the Dubuque Museum of Art, Iowa; Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, New York; the International Ceramic Biennial, France; the World Ceramic Biennale Korea; and the Faenza Prize International Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Italy.

“Ruttenberg’s art calls to mind the works of other brilliant eccentric misfits, including Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Joseph Cornell, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Alison Saar. She shares with these artists a seraphic dedication to a personal, idiosyncratic, and deeply authentic impulse, making objects tuned to a subconscious voice that begs, cajoles, and even threatens for outward expression.”
— Artforum

Part of the Atelier Bowy C.D. Special Collaboration program.

Image (2): KATHY RUTTENBERG, Breasts, 2019, ceramic. Courtesy of the artist.

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Each Henzel Studio rug comes with an exclusive label featuring a unique identification number, serving as a certificate of authenticity and ensuring the integrity of your acquisition. We offer international shipping, with the option of white glove delivery upon request for a seamless and premium experience.

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Image: RICHARD PRINCE, 1967, 2013 / 2026

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