Skulpturenpark Köln

With her pictures, drawings and small sculptures, as well as with large sculptures and objects, installations and video works, which she puts together in exhibitions to form comprehensive conceptions the artist is pursuing strategies that cross the frontiers between mediums. Conflicting elements, such as (living) trees and a (dead) metal nose, Trockel integrates spatially and as a matter of content into a disturbing ensemble. The erotic connotations, allusions to the plight of the modern artist, the ironic, whimsical combination of sculpture and garden art - L'Arc de Triomphe goes far beyond levelling the threshold between nature and art.

Rosemarie Trockel (b.1952 in Schwerte) has worked since the beginning of the 1980s in various artistic genres and mediums. With her pictures, drawings and small sculptures, as well as with large sculptures and objects, installations and video works, which she puts together in exhibitions to form comprehensive conceptions, she is pursuing strategies that cross the borders between mediums. The internal coherence of her complex works is determined by her continuous thematic focus on the socially and culturally determined function of symbols, emblems, codifications and specifically female perspectives. Drawing, frequently as a preliminary study for her threedimensional objects, is still today a genre in its own right within her creative work.