Rosemarie Trockel
Rosemarie Trockel (born November 13, 1952 in Schwerte, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German artist and an important figure in the international contemporary art movement. Trockel lives and works in Cologne, and teaches at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
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Early life and career [edit]
Trockel studied from 1974 to 1978 at the Werkkunstschule, Cologne, which was then heavily influenced by Joseph Beuys.[1] In the early 1980s, she came into contact with the Mülheimer Freiheit (1979-1984), a Cologne-based group of painters that included Walter Dahn and Jiří Georg Dokoupil, and she exhibited at the Cologne gallery of Monika Sprüth, who at that time showed only women artists.[2] In a German art scene dominated by male stars like Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, and Georg Baselitz, her subversive leanings soon pegged her as an enfant terrible. She addressed issues of sexuality, feminism, and the human body, and also questioned the hierarchy of systems: political, social, and even aesthetic.[3]
Work [edit]
From 1970–1978, Trockel addressed contemporary concerns, particularly women and their place in the art world. Her work challenged concepts of sexuality, culture, and artistic production. In the 1980s, she had important solo shows in the United States, for example at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.[4]
Trockel's "knitting pictures", produced in 1985, consist of lengths of machine-knitted, woolen material stretched onto frames.[4] The material is patterned with computer-generated geometrical motifs, or with recognizable logos, such as the hammer and sickle motif of the Soviet Union superimposed on a background of red and white stripes reminiscent of the US flag. Another of Trockel's pieces consists of a steel cube fitted with six hot plates in two parallel, diagonal lines, meant to establish a bridge between the "feminine domain" of cooking and the "masculine domain" of industrial production. Aside from the knitted and patterned logos, she has also made a series of pictures of webs made by spiders under the influence of LSD, hashish, or mescaline. She says it depicts their loneliness and their weak figures, because their webs would not be strong enough to catch prey to survive. They would eventually die. The spider web series can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Trockel's Painting Machine and 56 Brush Strokes is a mechanical contraption of wires and steel rollers, in which 56 paint brushes make small marks on a roll of paper. The brushes are made of human hair and are engraved with the names of the hair's donors, including artists like Cindy Sherman, Georg Baselitz, and Barbara Kruger.[5]
In 1995, Trockel created the Frankfurter Engel memorial in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Invited to documenta 1997, she (in a collaboration with her then-partner, Carsten Höller) installed A House for Pigs and People, in which a clan of pigs and their young carried on their lives as hordes of viewers watched.[6]
Together with Thea Djordjadze, with whom she has frequently collaborated since Djordjadze had been her student in the late 1990s, Trockel designed Image Movement, a film shop and cinema within Sprüth Magers’ Berlin gallery.
For the season 2008/2009 in the Vienna State Opera Rosemarie Trockel designed a large scale picture (176 sqm) as part of the exhibition series "Safety Curtain", conceived by museum in progress.[7]
Exhibitions [edit]
Trockel has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Dia Center for the Arts, New York; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. At New York's Pat Hearn Gallery in 1987, Trockel's paintings were shown alongside the works of Mary Heilmann, Annette Lemieux, Louise Bourgeois, and Eva Hesse.[8] In 1988, as part of the museum's "Projects" series, the Museum of Modern Art offered an extended look at the artist's made between 1982 and 1987.[9] In 1989, Thomas Krens included her in his show "Refigured Painting: The German Images 1960-88", organized jointly by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Williams College Museum of Art.[10] Trockel was the sole representative of Germany in the 1999 Venice Biennale.[11]
In 2012, Trockel work was featured in a retrospective exhibit called “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” at the New Museum in New York.[12]
Contributions [edit]
2008 Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International[13]
Honors and prizes (Selection) [edit]
- 1985 Stipendium by Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, Cologne
- 1989 Karl-Ströher-Preis, Frankfurt am Main
- 1991 Günter-Fruhtrunk-Preis by Akademie der Bildenden Künste Munich
- 1998 Staatspreis by Nordrhein-Westfalen
- 1999 Internationaler Kunstpreis by Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse Munich
- 2004 Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis by Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Kölner Museum Ludwig
- 2011 Goslarer Kaiserring
- 2011 Wolf Prize in Arts
Art market [edit]
Trockel is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London and Gladstone Gallery in New York and Brussels. At Art Basel in 2012, Skarstedt Gallery sold Trockel's knitted painting Made in Western Germany (1987) for $1 million.[14]
Footnotes [edit]
- ^ Michael Kimmelman (April 28, 1991), Politics, Laced With a Dollop of Strangeness New York Times.
- ^ Rosemarie Trockel Tate, London.
- ^ Grace Glueck (March 23, 2001), Drawings as Enigmas Wrapped in Metaphors New York Times.
- ^ a b Ian Chilvers & John Glaves-Smith, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art. Oxford University Press, p. 715
- ^ Rosemarie Trockel Tate, London.
- ^ Grace Glueck (March 23, 2001), Drawings as Enigmas Wrapped in Metaphors New York Times.
- ^ "Safety Curtain 2008/2009", museum in progress, Vienna.
- ^ Roberta Smith (October 2, 1987), 'Sculpture,' the Works of Five Women New York Times.
- ^ Roberta Smith (March 11, 1988), Sly, Sardonic Feminism From a West German New York Times.
- ^ Michael Brenson (February 10, 1989), 'The German Image' New York Times.
- ^ Rosemarie Trockel: Country Life, New Ceramics, and Pottery, October 21 - November 25, 2006 Gladstone Gallery, New York.
- ^ Lookofsky, Sarah. "Rosemarie Trockel: NEW MUSEUM". Artforum. Archived from the original on 2013-04-27.
- ^ "Life On Mars". Carnegie International. February 2008. Archived from the original on 2013-04-27.
- ^ Scott Reyburn (June 13, 2012), Hedge Funder Cohen, Eye Rothko, $25 Million Richter Sells Bloomberg.
References [edit]
- Ian Chilvers & John Glaves-Smith, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art. Oxford University Press (2009)
External links [edit]
- Rosemarie Trockel in German National Library
- Rosemarie Trockel on Artcyclopedia
- Rosemarie Trockel – Exhibitions listed at kunstaspekte
- Rosemarie Trockel – artnet
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