Roth Christopher Roth
March 17—April 13, 2012

Roth Christopher Roth

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Pinboard, 2012 (left) Printed websites, facebook profiles The artist searched the web for persons named Christopher Roth. A selection was printed and glued to the wall. The images included: pictures from daily life situations, news from digital newspapers, advertisements, personal and professional information mixed together, creating a confusing combination of different personalities all identically named. Rot Means Red In German and Roth Doesn't Mean Anything, 2012 (wall, back) Printed fabric, hanging cords The work shows a map of the US states in different colors: red, pink, violet, green, yellow. The color chart indicates the percentage of the population named Roth in each state. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

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'Bestselling horror novelist Christopher Roth feels in need of a change, the gruesome ideas in his novels are starting to take over his dreams...' Amazon.com about Christopher Roth I want to know who I am. This is an exhibition about myself. In February, exactly ten years ago, the psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek sat next to me. There were four or five people on a panel talking about film and terrorism and a documentary filmmaker said he...
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Christopher Roth

Christopher Roth was born in Munich, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin. His practice may be best understood as a kind of proactive intellectual scholarship that combines the factual and fictitious,...