Rosemarie Trockel, Alice in Wonderland, 1995, Silkscreen on rag paper, 101 x 80 cm (39¾ x 31½ in.), edition of 60, signed and numbered. Price upon request.
Rosemarie Trockel, Pattern is a Teacher, 2019, limited edition of 70, signed and numbered by the artist, 90 x 75 cm, digital print on Hahnemühle paper. Price upon request.
About the Artist
Rosemarie Trockel is considered to be one of the most important contemporary female artists. From 1974-1978 she studied painting in Werner Schiefer’s painting class at the Kölner Werkschulen (Cologne Schools of Visual Arts) and had loose contacts with the artists’ group Mülheimer Freiheit (Freedom of Mülheim).
Rosemarie Trockelis a contemporary German Conceptual artist whose work challenges traditional notions of femininity, culture, and artistic production. Employing a wide range of materials, including video, ceramics, drawing, found artifacts, and knitted works, the artist raises questions of politics, domesticity, eroticism, and fantasy. “The minute something works, it ceases to be interesting,” she said of making art. “As soon as you have spelled something out, you should set it aside.” Born in Schwerte, Germany on November 13, 1952, she studied at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne, before going on to become one the first artists to show at Monika Sprüth gallery. Trockel first rose to prominence after exhibiting her celebratedKnitted Paintings(1985) series, which were created using machine-knitted fabrics stretched onto canvas supports. Throughout these woolen surfaces, Trockel depicts generic, computer-generated imagery or, in some cases, specific historic iconography, such as the Soviet worker with a sickle and hammer. In 2012, her sprawling exhibition “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos,” opened at the New Museum in New York, later traveling to the Serpentine Gallery in London the following year. The artist currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Today, her works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Kunstmuseum Basel, among others.
Her fame mainly started in the 1980s, with deliberately cliché-ridden knitting pictures and hot-plate pictures in which she expressed an ironical view of a woman’s traditional role, handed down by art, culture and society. International attention was also attracted by a piece of work on which she had collaborated with Carsten Höller for documenta 10, “House of Pigs and Humans”, in 1997. Two years later, she represented Germany with a solo exhibition at the 48th Venice Biennial. Major retrospectives have recently been dedicated to her, for instance, by the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt (2003) and Museum Ludwig in Cologne (2004/2005). In this context, she received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize in Cologne in 2004, and she was also given the Imperial Ring of the City of Goslar in 2011. Rosemarie Trockel has held a professorship in sculpture at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf since 1998..
About this Art work
The digital collage combines an image of one of her iconic wool works of the same title, with a found image from the internet. The geometric stripe wool work has been inserted into a latched window of the kiosk becoming an extension of the abstract work. The monochromatic lines of the kiosk intersecting with the bold knitted lines. Removing the wool work from its usual context of a gallery space and rendering the kiosk part of the abstract composition, the edition demonstrates Trockel’s ongoing interest in displacement, juxtaposition and allusion.
More Artwork by this Artist
Rosemarie Trockel, Alice in Wonderland, 1995, Silkscreen on rag paper, 101 x 80 cm (39¾ x 31½ in.). Edition of 60, signed and numbered. Price upon request.
Rosemarie Trockel, Copy Me 2013 (R), Offset print on Profigloss, edition of 30 + 5 AP numbered, dated and signed by hand on verso, incl. high-quality CONZEN frame, dimensions print: 48 x 40 cm, frame: 76 x 68 cm.Price upon request.
Rosemarie Trockel, No title / Face, 1990. coloured pigment print in grey-blue tones / cardboard, edition of 37, signed and numbered on verso, dimension: 103 x 84 cm. Print folded in the middle. Price upon request.
Rosemarie Trockel, Hundeporträt, etching, handsigned, numbered, dimensions 31 1/2 × 23 3/5 in, 80 × 60 cm, edition of 100. Price upon request.
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Rosemarie Trockel, 8 x Original-Serigraphien (Netter Art-Collection), 2000, Portfolio of 8 silkscreens on paper, signed and numbered, edition of 250 + 25 AP, dimensions 59 x 84 cm (23.2 x 33.1 in) each. Price upon request.
Rosemarie Trockel, 8 x Original-Serigraphien (Netter Art-Collection), 2000, Portfolio of 8 silkscreens on paper, signed and numbered, edition of 250 + 25 AP, dimensions 59 x 84 cm (23.2 x 33.1 in) each. Price upon request.
