A Chocolate Sculpture 'Selfportrait as a Lion'
Dieter Roth (Hannover 1930 - Basel 1998)
Lot-No. 625
Starting Bid: 800 €
Cast figure made of chocolate. H. 23 x 12 x 18 cm. In keeping with the artist's intention, with traces of age such as so-called grease marks, cracks and crumbling. Dieter Roth portrayed himself here as an old man, on the body of a crouching young lion - 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 'Selfportrait as a Lion'
Dieter Roth (Hannover 1930 - Basel 1998)
A Chocolate Sculpture 'Selfportrait as a Lion'
Lot-No. 625
Starting Bid: 800 €
Cast figure made of chocolate. H. 23 x 12 x 18 cm. In keeping with the artist's intention, with traces of age such as so-called grease marks, cracks and crumbling. Dieter Roth portrayed himself here as an old man, on the body of a crouching young lion - 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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