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Processing the World

Processing the World Dieter Roth - Processing the World
Dedicated to the complex, proliferative and innovative work of a major figure in the art of the second half of the XXth century, this comprehensive monograph highlights Dieter Roth's creative processes and the way he pushes them to the limit.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Frac Bretagne, Rennes, from December 2013 to March 2014.
Dieter Roth was born to a Swiss father and German mother in Hanover, Germany, in 1930, and was later sent out of Nazi Germany to live in Switzerland with foster parents. He received his training in graphic design in Bern, where he also became interested in avant-garde design and poetry. A despiser of routines, he moved often, living in places as remote from one another as Reykjavik, London, Basel, Hamburg, and Providence (Rhode Island); in each of these places he created a new identity and used a different variation of his birth name, Karl Dieter Roth, such as Dieter Roth, Diter Rot and Dieterrot. He died in 1998.
Sculptor, poet, a pioneer of artist's books, performer, publisher, and musician, Dieter Roth has long been beloved as an artist's artist. Constantly trying to undo his art education, he would set up systems that discouraged the conventional and the consistent: he drew with both hands at once, preserved the discarded, and reveled in the transitory. Grease stains, mold formations, insect borings, and rotting foodstuffs were just some of the materials used, both out of a fascination with their painterly, textural aspects and for their innate ability to make time visible and play to chance. "More is better," he once said, and more there always was. Roth never stopped working, and he believed that everything could be art, from his sketchpad to the table he sat at, the telephone he talked on, or his friend's kitchen (the kitchen was later sold to a museum).

See also: Selten Gehörte Musik (Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener); Dorothy Iannone.
Edité par Marion Daniel.
Texts by Dieter Roth, Marion Daniel, Catherine Elkar, Camille Paulhan, J. Emil Sennewald.
 
published in March 2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
17 x 23 cm (softcover)
196 pages (color ill.)
 
22.00
 
ISBN : 978-2-84066-701-8
EAN : 9782840667018
 
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