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Rot ist eine schnelle Farbe (Red is a fast colour) – this sentence refers to a scene in the Austrian TV series Schlawiner, in which two regulars philosophise about colour perception in the context of motor racing. Years earlier, David Roth (born 1985 in Oberpullendorf, AT) had already read about ‘fast’ and ‘fleeting’ colours while reading Leon Battista Alberti’s Della Pittura – the standard work on the art of painting written in the 15th century, which is regarded as the first modern theory of painting. Roth’s work moves between these two poles – art-theoretical analysis and everyday philosophical humour – as a serious yet playful questioning of what painting is – and can be. David Roth’s artistic work always revolves around a central question: What is painting – and what can it be? Also: What do we expect from it?
In his multimedia work, which ranges from performative actions to installation and video to painting, Roth does not understand...More
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Rot ist eine schnelle Farbe (Red is a fast colour) – this sentence refers to a scene in the Austrian TV series Schlawiner, in which two regulars philosophise about colour perception in the context of motor racing. Years earlier, David Roth (born 1985 in Oberpullendorf, AT) had already read about ‘fast’ and ‘fleeting’ colours while reading Leon Battista Alberti’s Della Pittura – the standard work on the art of painting written in the 15th century, which is regarded as the first modern theory of painting. Roth’s work moves between these two poles – art-theoretical analysis and everyday philosophical humour – as a serious yet playful questioning of what painting is – and can be. David Roth’s artistic work always revolves around a central question: What is painting – and what can it be? Also: What do we expect from it?
In his multimedia work, which ranges from performative actions to installation and video to painting, Roth does not understand...More
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