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Untitled (younger sister)
Rosemarie Trockel
one sculpture (plaster of Paris) and five drawings (acrylic on paper, framed)
6 parts, 120 × 250 cm approx. (total, framed)
1994
Acquisition 1996
Inv. No. 0008a-f
The work is one part of a five-part work group in which Rosemarie Trockel considers her family. Each family member is portrayed in a similar way – on the one hand as a sculpted head in plaster of Paris and on the other, in a group of works on paper.
Untitled. (younger sister) achieves its intensive, evocative effect from the strong plasticity of the sculptural portrait and the flatness of the watercolour which stands in apparent contrast. Both of these media emphasise the origins of the portrait in a process of assembly and certainly also as a reference to the character traits of the person portrayed. One doesn’t see how the younger sister looks, but one does see (what makes) her. The artist’s achievement does not lie in the masterly craft of producing realistic figural depictions but rather in the forming of a body so that the person’s character traits can be felt. What is new here is not form or technique but rather what that they are able to evoke in us because we ourselves are all part of a family.
Paul Katzberger, 2005 (translation: Tim Sharp)
Continue readingExhibitions
Wallpaper #6, evn sammlung, Maria Enzersdorf, 2023
evn collection / institutional presentation, Viennafair, Vienna, 2011
Kunst als Kommentar. Aus den Achtziger Jahren in Deutschland, neues museum. Nürnberg, Nuremberg, 2006
Nach Rokytník. The collection of EVN, MUMOK, Vienna, 2005
There is something you should know. Die EVN Sammlung im Belvedere, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, 2000
Publications
Claudia Marquardt, Gesichter. Ein Motiv zwischen Figur, Portrait und Maske (Begleitheft), Neues Museum Nürnberg, 2015, p. 30-31
Kunst als Kommentar. Aus den achtziger Jahren in Deutschland. Gerorg Herold, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Sigmar Polke, Rosemarie Trockel, Nuremberg 2006, p. 8
evn sammlung 95–05, Cologne 2005, p. 328
evn sammlung. Ankäufe 1995 – 1996, Maria Enzersdorf 1997, p. 37
Rosemarie Trockel, Billy Rose Pavilion, 1995–96, Jerusalem 1996, p. s. p.
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