Just as symbolic in Dieter Roth’s work, the subject of the self-portrait appears ubiquitously in his pieces, regardless of the technique.
Selbstbildnis als Pariser is a 1973 photogravure that causes an image of the artist as a Parisian to reappear. The title and the cut through the center recall other works in the Selbst als... series, in which Dieter Roth presents himself in the not-always-identifiable form of animals, materials or objects.
The nearly symmetrical silhouette framing the heart of this photogravure comes up again, for example, in a drawing from the same year, Selbstportrait als Kartoffel (Self-Portrait as a Potato).
The theme of the self-portrait in Roth’s work was the subject of an exhibition presented at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in 2011.
Selbstbildnis als Pariser is a 1973 photogravure that causes an image of the artist as a Parisian to reappear. The title and the cut through the center recall other works in the Selbst als... series, in which Dieter Roth presents himself in the not-always-identifiable form of animals, materials or objects.
The nearly symmetrical silhouette framing the heart of this photogravure comes up again, for example, in a drawing from the same year, Selbstportrait als Kartoffel (Self-Portrait as a Potato).
The theme of the self-portrait in Roth’s work was the subject of an exhibition presented at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in 2011.
