Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
When Rosemarie Trockel emerged in the early 1980s as a principal figure in the German art scene, a member of the generation that followed Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz, she was almost alone in addressing feminist issues and sexuality. Her pictures, made from machine-knitted wool and patterned with consumerist and political icons, challenged the privileged status of the male-dominated province of painting as high art, and exposed the emptiness of the icons that decorate our everyday lives.
Synopsis
Essays by Josefina Ayerza, Lynne Cooke, Rainald Schumacher, and Stephan Urbaschek. Introduction by Ingvild Goetz and Rainald Schumacher.