Lot 123
123
Rosemarie Trockel (b. 1952)
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Rosemarie Trockel (b. 1952)

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Rosemarie Trockel (b. 1952)
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wool and food colouring on canvas
118 1/8 x 118 1/8in. (300 x 300cm.)
Executed in 2012
Provenance
Donated by the artist.
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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

"Obviously [it] is not possible to tie Trockels work to theoretical writings. But in many works she seeks indeed to define womans place in Western society opposing the models that reduce her to a being that finds pleasure only in passivity, and fulfillment in maturity. Trockel juxtaposes and mixes metaphorical references to both sexes, as much to denounce exclusion and sectarianism as to expose the contradictions that are the cause of this."
V. Bacchetta, "Provocation and Poetic Enigma", in Parkett, no. 32, 1992, p. 44.


Copyright: Rosemarie Trockel, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012

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