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Arman, 1928-2005

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Peter Roehr / Roehr, Peter ; Rudi H. Fuchs, curator ; Paul Maenz, curator ; Arman ; Manzoni P ; Warhol A ; Stella F ; Martin A ; LeWitt S ; Judd D ; Andre C., 1977

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Identifier: CC-59650-50188
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...
Dates: 1977