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Publisher: When Frankfurt artist Peter Roehr died in 1968 at the young age of 23, he left behind several hundred works which exclusively pursued serial repetition. From found materials he created montages of photographs, text, typography, objects, sound, and film probing the concept of redundancy. Now that four decades have lapsed since his death, the nature of Roehr's works rises to the fore. They become amazingly enhanced and turn into narrative formulations oscillating between ready-made and seriality, pop and minimal art, everyday life and abstraction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Peter Roehr (1944-1968) was a German minimalist painter and object artist who died of lymphoma.Roehr made with industrially produced elements or printed motifs in serial sequence usually square image panels. This addition each of the same motives that any subjectivity fades, attention is directed to the individual repetierten parts, on the applied principle of order, as directed on the resulting bulk form. The artist chose motifs in a well-defined size and number, so that a new formal unit was created. The materials chosen to bring prototypically the stereotypes of mass society expressed: Post stickers like Quick shipment or write-posting list are included as well as motif excerpts from the Illustrated advertising , book labels, price labels, beer cap with the design of the Henninger Tower or square school slate tables and round plastic lenses. His typographic progressions he presented with mechanical rakes - and typewriters ago (addition strip ST-9, 1962) and is here to...

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The Sackner Archive holds an original copy of this exhibition catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.