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The exhibition was curated by Andre Balthazar and Pol Bury. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

On gold colored, papercard stock, Higgins has printed the same message, ...is magnificant with four spellings of Roth's name, e.g., dieter roth, diter rot, dieter rot, and diter roth. The card is addresses to Dieter Roth in Iceland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In the principal essay, "My Eye is a Mouth," the curator Felicitas Thun states that the work of Dieter Roth forms the core of his self conception and of his principle of art. "Through constant self-reference the artist gives the presence of his own existence precedence over his work...Roth confronts dialogue and communications with a massive collection of items and flood of images...[He is] an artist who orients himself along the basic precepts and rules of an avant-garde, which attempts the radical task of transforming the self, his own reality, into a work and thus defends itself against institutionalisation." Most of the works in this exhibition are held by the Austrian Ludwig collection. The Sackner Archive holds several works depicted in this catalogue including "Buch AB 1973 and Roth's verlag books among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This was one of three catalogues published during an exhibition entitled, Modifications: Baj, Jorn, Spoerri. The pictures that are reproduced in this catalogue are realistic paintings that have been altered by Spoerri through collaged additions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.