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| Dieter Roth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Artist's Name: | Dieter Roth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred medium: | mixed media | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| birth year: | 1930 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | DE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City: | Basel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dieter Roth - Profile |
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| Following a period of dedication to concrete art during the 1950s, the prolific work of this 20thcentury universal artist has been marked by a firmly subjective awareness of time and the world surrounding him. In the early 1960s, Roth begins to experiment with media and low-quality, perishable materials, which does not only reflect a destruction of hierarchies, but also a consistently existential attitude aiming at the creation of a vivid kind of art beyond established forms of creativity. With his pictorial (and linguistic) articulation becoming increasingly subjective, Dieter Roth now unfolds a discussion about the processes of transformation and transitoriness of all the things existing in a reality defined by subjective perception, rather than by objective notions. At the same time, Roth's focus progressively shifts towards the process of artistic creation inspired by his own existence, so as to push the final result into the background. In this light, it becomes obvious why Roth has come to see drawing, just as writing, as the most important and most personal way of expressing himself. There is probably no other medium that allows to directly represent the duality of describing and recognizing conscious and latent perceptions as pertinently as drawing ("to see is to represent"). What is more, working in series favors the formation of permanently flowing trains of thoughts, while the energetic quality of the drawn line translates and visualizes the current state of mind. Self-centeredness, transformation, change, and variation are the constitutive characteristics of the groups of drawings on display that, with few exceptions, have been done in the A4 format. For most series, the artist has made use of the sensory and ambivalent quality of the pencil line. In other drawings, he has experimented with different painting techniques by drawing with ink and a felt-tip pen, by overdrawing a pen picture, or by overpainting it with broad gouache brushstrokes. (Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
important exhibitions from Dieter Roth |
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WHAT'S ON - current exhibitions with Dieter RothArchitektonika 205/04/2012 - 13/01/2013Absalon Jürgen Albrecht Fischli & Weiss Carl Andre Stan Douglas Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani Bruce Nauman ...
Berlin Atelier + Küche = Labore der Sinne12/05/2012 - 16/09/2012Chantal Akerman Sonja Alhäuser Arman Benjamin Bergmann Jessica Backhaus Jost Amman Joseph Beuys ...
Herford Kunst mit Schokolade13/05/2012 - 30/09/2012Sonja Alhäuser Peter Anton Joseph Beuys Paul McCarthy Stephen Craig Corrado Bonomi Marcel Duchamp ...
Waldenbuch A house full of music13/05/2012 - 09/09/2012Nevin Aladag Laurie Anderson John Baldessari John M. Armleder Samuel Beckett Charles Atlas Joseph Beuys ...
Darmstadt Architektonika15/09/2011 - 27/01/2013Absalon Jürgen Albrecht Fischli & Weiss Carl Andre Sophie Calle Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani Bruce Nauman ...
Berlin ART = LIFE = ART. DADA > FLUXUS. From the Museions Collection16/03/2012 - 24/02/2013Erik Andersen Joseph Beuys Marcel Duchamp John Cage George Brecht Giuseppe Chiari Nam June Paik ...
Bozen 180°: Die Sammlung im Kubus19/11/2011 - 14/10/2012Willi Baumeister Dieter Roth Wolfgang Laib Otto Dix Stuttgart |
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artist's websiteexternal Link to the website of the artist or his gallery/institution: Dieter Roth |
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Galleries representing
Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch Galerie |
Collections representing
Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur |
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