A Chocolate Sculpture 'Self Portrait'
Dieter Roth (Hannover 1930 - Basel 1998)
Lot-No. 624
Starting Bid: 800 €
Cast made of chocolate. H. 21 x 14 x 12 cm. In keeping with the artist's intention, with traces of age such as so-called grease marks, cracks and crumbling. Roth portrayed himself here as an old man, as a reaction to James Joyce's novel ‘Portrait of the artist as a young man’. By using chocolate as a perishable material, Roth caricatured the actual function of the bust, which is to remember the sitter for as long as possible using conventional materials such as bronze or stone - Provenance: From the collection of Dieter Roth's friend Dr. Gabriele Hartmann, Hamburg - Swiss poet, graphic artist, action and object artist. R. was an important proponent of 'Concrete Poetry' and Eat Art and was also in contact with Fluxus artists in New York. His works were exhibited twice at the Documenta. His works of art, which are always humorous, take up changeability and transience concretely in their materials. Mus.: New York (Moma), London (Tate), Paris (Centre Pompidou), Zürich (Kunsthaus), Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Hannover (Sprengel. Mus.), Karlsruhe (ZKM), Barcelona, Bremen, Gent, Roskilde a. others. Lit.: B. Meyer-Krahmer: Dieter Roth: Selbstbeobachtung als künstlerischer Schaffensprozess a. others.
Dieter Roth: A Chocolate Sculpture 'Self Portrait'
Dieter Roth (Hannover 1930 - Basel 1998)
A Chocolate Sculpture 'Self Portrait'
Lot-No. 624
Starting Bid: 800 €
Cast made of chocolate. H. 21 x 14 x 12 cm. In keeping with the artist's intention, with traces of age such as so-called grease marks, cracks and crumbling. Roth portrayed himself here as an old man, as a reaction to James Joyce's novel ‘Portrait of the artist as a young man’. By using chocolate as a perishable material, Roth caricatured the actual function of the bust, which is to remember the sitter for as long as possible using conventional materials such as bronze or stone - Provenance: From the collection of Dieter Roth's friend Dr. Gabriele Hartmann, Hamburg - Swiss poet, graphic artist, action and object artist. R. was an important proponent of 'Concrete Poetry' and Eat Art and was also in contact with Fluxus artists in New York. His works were exhibited twice at the Documenta. His works of art, which are always humorous, take up changeability and transience concretely in their materials. Mus.: New York (Moma), London (Tate), Paris (Centre Pompidou), Zürich (Kunsthaus), Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Hannover (Sprengel. Mus.), Karlsruhe (ZKM), Barcelona, Bremen, Gent, Roskilde a. others. Lit.: B. Meyer-Krahmer: Dieter Roth: Selbstbeobachtung als künstlerischer Schaffensprozess a. others.
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