Rosemarie Trockel

“Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” presents an imaginary universe in which Trockel’s own artwork from the past thirty years is juxtaposed with objects and artifacts from different eras and cultures that map many of her artistic interests.

Although remarkably inventive and prolific, Trockel has deflected any identifiable stylistic signature: films and videos, knit paintings, projects for children, ceramics, drawings, and collages, plus a panoply of sculptures in a range of materials, are among the myriad forms that comprise her practice.

Nonetheless, certain constants underpin this diverse activity: contending notions of feminism, purported antagonisms between the amateur and professional creator, the celebrity and the unknown maker, and between the fine, as opposed to the applied, arts and crafts. More broadly, Trockel probes interrelations between humans and animals, and our impact, as a species, on the natural world.

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and the New Museum, New York. 

Published by Monacelli Press, 2012

(Currently unavailable for purchase from Gladstone) 

Hardcover
English
224 pages
10.88 x 11 1/4 inches; 28 x 28 1/2 cm
ISBN 9781580933605