Lightscape by Ruth Gurvich

Porcelain as delicate as paper, light in every sense, combined with an aesthetic of imperfection and yet wrought with absolute perfection. Porcelain innovative in form and style, and yet exuding the spirit of 260 years of craft tradition – that is Lightscape. This 28-piece set of vases and tableware continues Nymphenburg’s series of collaborations with the most distinguished contemporary artists and designers. With Lightscape, Argentine-born Ruth Gurvich created an edition which is based entirely on paper models and which may be used anywhere thanks to its formal openness: in the kitchen, on the table or in the living room. Her designs have turned paper into a principle, a virtuoso parade of paper characteristics such as creases, folds and tautness.

The sculptural elegance of the set is matched by the poetry of the decoration and Gurvich’s East Asian landscapes, which again pick up the idea of brightness and the ephemeral. The mountain landscapes, the waves and the lines of the horizon come across like a reverie. The mountain tops seem to vanish in the distance. Gurvich’s precisely positioned but diluted brushstrokes create an illusion of depth and three-dimensionality. You could even arrange the individual objects of Lightscape so as to turn them into worlds of their own – landscapes of light, created in porcelain.

RUTH GURVICH was born in cordoba, Argentina in 1961. Initially she studied architecture in her homeland, but in 1979 she switched to art, continuing her studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1987 to 1991.
Ruth Gurvich lives and works in Paris.