Art - General & Miscellaneous, Conceptual Art & Art of the 1970s, German Art, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Art Subjects - General & Miscellaneous

Rosemarie Trockel

Name: Rosemarie Trockel
Author: Rosemarie Trockel
ISBN: 9783980806305

by Rosemarie Trockel (Artist), Rainald Schumacher (Editor), Ingvild Goetz (Contribution by), Lynne Cooke, Josefina Ayerza

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Overview

When Rosemarie Trockel emerged in the early 1980s as a principal figure in the German art scene, a member of the generation that followed Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz, she was almost alone in addressing feminist issues and sexuality. Her pictures, made from machine-knitted wool and patterned with consumerist and political icons, challenged the privileged status of the male-dominated province of painting as high art, and exposed the emptiness of the icons that decorate our everyday lives.

Synopsis

Essays by Josefina Ayerza, Lynne Cooke, Rainald Schumacher, and Stephan Urbaschek. Introduction by Ingvild Goetz and Rainald Schumacher.

About the Author, Rosemarie Trockel

Rosemarie Trockel was born in 1952 in Schwerte, Germany. She studied painting in Cologne in the mid-70s, and had her debut show at Galerie Philomene Magers in Bonn, in 1983; since then, she has exhibited widely in Europe and North America, including in such major shows as the 1996 and 1999 Venice Biennales, the 1995 and 1999 Istanbul Biennials, and Documenta X. Recent solo exhibitions were presented at the Sammlung Goetz, Munich and the Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Trockel lives and works in Cologne.

Lynne Cooke has been curator at the Dia Center for the Arts since 1991. She has written and edited several volumes on contemporary art and has lectured widely on the topic throughout the world.