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dal 16/10/2003 al 11/1/2004
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16/10/2003
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Museum Ludwig, Koln
A Dieter Roth Retrospective. The first comprehensive retrospective after Dieter Roth's death in 1998. It will provide visitors with the opportunity to discover the rich oeuvre - some works of which are little known - of this artist who exerted a great influence on contemporary art. There is hardly an artist whose work is as multi-faceted and complex in form and content as that of Dieter Roth.
A Dieter Roth Retrospective
"Roth-Zeit" is the first comprehensive retrospective after Dieter Roth's death
in 1998. It will provide visitors with the opportunity to discover the rich
oeuvre - some works of which are little known - of this artist who exerted a
great influence on contemporary art. There is hardly an artist whose work is as
multi-faceted and complex in form and content as that of Dieter Roth. He was an
artist and created books, he worked as a musician and filmmaker, writer,
communicator and mentor and thus was a rare example of a true universal artist.
The exhibition will present a careful selection of the artist's works covering a
period of five decades and will demonstrate Roth's versatile use of different
media. The earliest works exhibited are paintings, drawings and prints from the
early 1940s and highlight their development until the 1950s when Roth was
influenced by concrete art. The early experiments in film and photography will
be presented alongside his kinetic objects from 1960-62. An important focal
point of the exhibition will be Roth's book production which strongly influenced
the development of artists' books in contemporary art.
Another focal point are his material pictures and objects which he created
during his stays in Providence, USA. Roth is most strongly associated with these
works by art-lovers. The works he created in collaboration with artists such as
Richard Hamilton, Arnulf Rainer and Ingrid Wiener form another important
complex. These works preoccupied Roth above all in the 1970s. The following
decades are characterized by the growing influence of his diary-like works on
his artistic development. A culmination point are his large-scale installations
in the 1990s.
The exhibition will be organized by the Laurenz-Foundation and the Schaulager
Basel in conjunction with the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Museum of Modern
Art in New York. From 10 March to 8 June 2004 the exhibition travels to the
Museum of Modern Art in Queens and at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. The
curator in charge of the project will be Theodora Fischer. In Cologne, the
curator in charge will be Ulrich Wilmes, deputy director of the Museum Ludwig,
and in New York Gary Garrels, Chief Curator of Drawings and Curator of Painting
and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.
Image: Dieter Roth Portrait by Richard Hamilton, 1998
The exhibition is supported by the Swiss foundation Pro Helvetia and
Kunststiftung NRW.
Opening: Friday, October 17, 7 p.m.
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