Press Release

Renowned for his adventurous experimentation with both materials and subject matter, Dieter Roth (b. 1930 Hanover, Germany) generated a multifaceted oeuvre that transcends boundaries between painting, sculpture, design, literature, poetry and music. Featuring a selection of graphic works, monoprints, multiples and unique pieces spanning from the early 1960s to 1975, ‘Islandscapes’ focuses on Roth’s printmaking, which accompanied every phase of his life and practice. By centering works which engage with the landscape genre, this presentation displays the artist’s heterogenous techniques and illustrates the tremendous radicality of his approach.

About the Artist

‘D. Roth was born in 1930 among the butchering Germans at that horrible stretch of time, when that cannibal, awful Hitler, Adolf, was just getting the Germans going at their best hit, butchering war. Hell was loose, but Roth survived, beatings and scoldings he survived, shitting and pissing in his timid pants, poor shaking little turd, he even managed to live through that rainstorm of bombs and grenades, awful smashing horror, brought about on all, the living and the dead, by the horridly cruel cool English and the annihilating man-eating cannibals, those fanty (fantastically) cruel citizens of the so-called United States of Northamerica, horrible man-killers. Roth got out of that place (described) by chance of being one of the citizens of his horrible home country, namely, selfrighteously, murderously Christian Switzerland. He survived, pantpissing for 12 years.

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