Dieter Roth
dal 26/6/2008 al 26/7/2008
Segnalato da
26/6/2008
Dieter Roth
Living Art Museum - Nylo, Reykjavik
Bookwork exhibition. Roth perambulated decades of permanent artistic change using diverse media such as installations, writing, filmmaking, musical compositions, performances, paintings, and printing. His works are more likely to be seen as experiments resulting in the unforeseen, the constant recycling of ideas and materials.
After having archived the Nylo collection of Dieter Roth’s bookworks, the museum now decided to open an exhibition about the German artist who lived and worked in Iceland for almost forty years. When he moved to Iceland in 1957 he brought with him a whiff of international kinetic art, as well as revolutionary ideas in design based on the philosophy of concrete art.
It is hard to summarize Dieter Roth’s work in one sentence. Roth perambulated decades of permanent artistic change using diverse media such as installations, writing, filmmaking, musical compositions, performances, paintings, and printing. Roth was always searching for new artistic forms, never being afraid of breaking boundaries, neither formal nor linguistic conventions. His way of working has never been predictable. His works are more likely to be seen as experiments resulting in the unforeseen, the constant recycling of ideas and materials, and a collection of objects for eventual use in new works.
The following exhibition tries to give an introduction to the bookworks of Dieter Roth with a loose periodic separation starting in the 1950s and ending in the 1990s.
Catherine Fayek & Ann Katrin Risse
Opening june 27, 2008
Living art museum
Laugavegi 26 - Reykjavik