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Dieter Roth: A Life Sculpted from Chaos and Materials Dieter Roth (1930 – 1998) emerged from the post-war art scene as a singular, relentlessly inventive force—an artist who fundamentally challenged the boundaries between art and life. His work, often startling in its physicality and process, wasn’t about creating polished objects but rather documenting and embodying the very act of making itself. Roth's trajectory is one of constant experimentation, embracing a dizzying array of materials – wood, cardboard, rope, metal, plastic, even found objects – transforming them into complex, evolving…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of su dongpo's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
