Martin Roth (October 2, 1977 in Graz – June 14, 2019 in New York City[1]) was an Austrian artist living and working in New York City, USA after earning a master's degree from Hunter College in 2011. He was married to Josephine Nash,[2] the director of Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery.
Work
editMuch of Roth's work revolved around the introduction of living organisms into a setting or situation circumscribed by the artist. He used living organisms as a stand in for humans, to show that they're also characters caught in conditions where they don't have control."[3][4][5][4] His work, while frequently ephemeral or temporary,[4] is saturated in space.[6][5] On one level, there is the physical dimension of spaces large,[7] and small: from the quaint miniature landscapes or rocks and plants inside glass cages,[4][8] housing lizards[9] or mice[10] to the compact grid of a lavender field[11][12][13][14] shaped by the artist's arrangement in a white cube; from the beautiful patterned garden of Persian rugs sprouting verdant grass,[3][12][15] or the tepid lagoon created by flooding a gallery space,[6][16][17] to the thrust of a cherry sapling through a laminate surface,[4][18] demonstrating the interplay between an exposed space above and subterranean space[19][20] below that characterizes several of Roth's installations.[7] These physical settings often interweave with or generate acoustic spaces[21][22][17] to create the conditions for – and are, in turn, shaped by – the natural organism that inhabit them.[4][16] His work can be large-scale and particular to a site,[4][11][10] the fact that it requires the nurture[23] of living organisms[4][14] renders it strangely intimate and invites the viewer if not to engage directly,[24][17] at least to consider his or her relationship to the work on a human scale.[25][4] Roth interrogated the increasingly blurry line between human and nonhuman systems.[26]
References
edit- ^ Martin Roth
- ^ "Artist Martin Roth has died, aged 41". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 2019-06-20. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
- ^ a b "Transforming ancient carpets into gardens". 11 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Martin Roth on Collaborating with Nature". thecreativeindependent.com.
- ^ a b "Live Parakeets and Bullfrogs Amid the Wreckage of War". 12 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Martin Roth Populates a War Zone With Parakeets and Bullfrogs at Louis B. James". 8 October 2015 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ a b "MARTIN ROTH: In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of land in Midtown Manhattan nurtured by tweets". The Brooklyn Rail.
- ^ Fuse, Arte (26 April 2018). "Martin Roth: I collected a plant from the garden of a mass shooter at Yours Mine and Ours Gallery".
- ^ "Martin Roth". The New Yorker.
- ^ a b "Q - Martin Roth's latest installation uses Trump's Twitter account is cultivating a lavender field".
- ^ a b "Künstler züchtet Lavendel in New York - Monopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben". www.monopol-magazin.de.
- ^ a b "An Artist Is Growing a Garden Using Tweets from Trump, Fox, and CNN". 8 May 2017.
- ^ The Editors of ARTnews (6 June 2017). "Morning Links: Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th Birthday Edition".
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ a b "Donald Trump's Tweets Make Lavender Plants Bloom in Austrian Artist Martin Roth's Latest Installation - Architectural Digest".
- ^ Ferraioli, Mariacristina (12 June 2017). "Martin Roth a New York con un'opera anti-Trump - Artribune".
- ^ a b "Artist Fills Gallery with Rescued Animals and Debris from Syria". 16 September 2015.
- ^ a b c "VIDEO: Martin Roth Fills L.E.S. Gallery with Debris (and Birds) - Artinfo".
- ^ "MAKE.A.MATCH - Reto Steiner, Martin Roth - Sublet: Begegnungen die Früchte tragen". www.artmagazine.cc.
- ^ "Martin Roth". Widewalls.
- ^ Durón, Maximilíano (18 December 2015). "Martin Roth at Louis B. James".
- ^ "Martin Roth". The New Yorker.
- ^ "The Artist's Institute. Temporada 8: Pierre Huyghe – A*Desk". 14 July 2014.
- ^ Gittlen, Ariela (14 March 2018). "Why This Artist Is Growing Desert Plants to Question U.S. Gun Policies".
- ^ "Installation Can Be Felt Underfoot - ArtSlant". ArtSlant.
- ^ CTV News (7 June 2017). "Presidential power: Lavender garden nurtured by Trump tweets" – via YouTube.
- ^ "Martin Roth at yours mine & ours". www.artforum.com.