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“Ohne Titel” Rosemarie Trockel Known above all for her sculptures, video installations and “knitted pictures”, Rosemarie Trockel has an immense volume of drawings. There are drafts, sketches and fields of experimentation, or drawings designed as independent works of art. Trockel often draws on notepads or school books, as in the case of the two drawings exhibited here from 1986. In this, as in much of her work, she takes to task social and gender-specific role behavior in an ironic and biting way. The Italian caption “Permanente Installazione” above a family sitting on a sofa refers to her own work and to “immigrant work“. “Permanent Installations” are desired in the context of art; but not the permanent installation of Italian families in the context of immigrant work. At the same time, Trockel declared the family on the sofa to be a permanent (art)installation and, in this way, helped them achieve a high social value on a symbolic level. She also showed solidarity with the woman knitting. For the motife of female needlework was one of the central themes of her art in the middle of the 1980s. At this stage, Trockel had just started her “knitting pictures”. Produced by machine and covered with geometric patterns, the pictures serve as a reminder of the traditional knitting patterns from women’s magazines, and at the same time, as a reminder of the industrial process. In this way, with the knitting pictures, Trockel stripped down the hierarchical separations between industrial work, high-quality art work and female needlework – a theme that also recurs in this drawing. In the drawing with the caption “A beauty from a rich family falling in love with Gina”, Trockel is disturbed by the text-picture relationship. The cliched description of a beauty from a rich family is not, as we would expect, assigned to the girl but to the man who appears “strange” to German normality. Artist, born 1952, lives and works in Cologne. |
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