Exhibition

Dieter Roth: Diaries

17 May 2013 – 14 Jul 2013

Regular hours

Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 18:00
Sunday
11:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 21:00

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Camden Art Centre

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Throughout his career, German-Swiss artist Dieter Roth (1930 — 98) worked with obsessive energy, his prolific output comprising installation, sculpture, drawing, video, assemblages and books. A highly influential figure to artists both of his generation and ones which followed, much of Roth's work can be seen as a diary of sorts — a record of his relentless and impassioned engagement with life. The exhibition provides an extraordinary insight into Roth's life and work through his personal diaries. These intimate books served as agendas and ‘to do' lists and provided space for the compulsive working through of his ideas. Other works include a series of Roth's Old Bali Tischmatten (Tablemats), which, like his diaries, were sites for impulsive mark-making and the capturing of urgent thoughts and ideas. For Flat Waste Roth collected and archived various vagaries of life — things ordinarily discarded such as old food wrappers, receipts and other traces of daily activity. Seen together with Kleiderbild (Clothes Pictures) and his final work Solo Scenes, the exhibition demonstrates the indivisibility of Roth's art and life, reflecting perpetual concerns with authorship, self-portraiture and autobiography. Dieter Roth: Diaries was organised by The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in 2012 as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival and has been reconfigured with additional works for Camden Arts Centre.

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