Über Dieter Roth

Über Dieter Roththe account of the Roth Symposion on the occasion of the Roth retrospective at Schaulager held in Basel in July 2003, foreword by T. Vischer, with (partly illustrated) German texts by H. Bhringer, G. Brandstetter, M. Naeff J. Wiesel, B. Sntgen, H. J. Mller, G. Bhm, M. Wagner, U. M. Schneede, G. Garrels, B. van Bismarck, soft cover, 194 pages, 21 x 13 cm, Basel 2004

thus creating a narrative that allows the reader to follow the artist’s existence: his travels

) consisting of fractals (mostly ½) and the occasional black lines arranged across the space of the page

accompanied by b/w drawings

each word printed in the colour it indicates

collaborations

but clean lines in combination with gradients

a typographical experiment where these words appear in two identical columns printed side by side on each page in black

with information regarding the alphabet

accompanied and explained by small schematic drawings

a missing reflector strip or a dishevelled-looking stuffed cartoon character riding the back of a garbage truck like a mascot or perhaps even the effigy of some insatiable deity that requires sacrifices to be thrown into the gaping maw below it

signed and numbered/50

Clonmel 2009