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Between stoveplate art and wool pictures-
a comprehensive insight into the artist's work at the Kunsthalle Zurich

Stylistically widely ramified and heterogenous, the artist Rosemarie Trockel (born in 1952 in Schwerte) has been active since the late 1970s with an internationally unique and important work that includes drawings, two-and three-dimensional images and collages, objects, installations, knitting pictures, ceramics and videos, furniture, clothing and books.

"Liquefaction of the mother," as Rosemarie Trockel titled her exhibition for the Kunsthalle Zurich, provides a comprehensive insight into the work of the artist, with pieces and groups of works ranging from the early 1980s up to new pieces created for the exhibition. The exhibition presents itself as a well-ordered sequence of spaces in which groups of works can be experienced in an orderly fashion one after another: furniture and wall pieces made of ceramic, large-format monochrome knitted pictures, collages, videos and the reinterpreted, extended installation Sh. e. (2000/2005/2010), in which the entire diversity of the artist’s media meets in an animated Cabinet. In two oversized “space showcases”, specially designed for the exhibition and built into the walls of the Art Gallery as a key installation, the retrospective "Overview presentation" takes place.

The work of the artist is formulated from a precise, explicitly female perspective. The truism of the Feminist leads the artist onto the slippery ice and ad absurdum, such as with the “stoveplate art” emerging since the late 1980s, and with the knitting pictures which have become the artist’s hallmark. These pieces treat ironically the stereotype of the complacent art, mechanically embossed of a woman's hand, as much as it attacks the conventions of art history.


CATALOGUE:
A comprehensive catalogue to accompany the exhibition is being planned and will be released promptly for the further stations of the 2011 exhibition.

May 8th through August 15th, 2010
Kunsthalle Zürich, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich, Schweiz
www.kunsthallezurich.ch