Rineke Dijkstra (1959)
Amoy Botanical Garden, Xiamen, April 23, 2006
2006 | C-print | 77 x 95 cm
Rosemarie Trockel transforms her subjects using a system of alterations and inversions, subtle displacements with recurring themes: the double, beauty, icons, femininity...
In the 1980s, her "knitted paintings" were to ensure her first success. In a Germany dominated by great male figures such as Gerard Richter or Joseph Beuys, his textile works subtly bring the pictorial domain closer to the feminine without falling into denunciation. The knitted work is based on the corner of a kitchen towel, such as those commonly used in Germany in the 1960s. Double feminist symbols: the cloth and the knitting refer to the housewife.
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