MARTIN ROTH In October 2019 listened to animals
Martin Roth, I shipped debris from the syrian border to use as bird litter., 2015 © Martin Roth, Courtesy Collection of Josephine Nash, New York
For the installation in KUNST HAUS WIEN, the Austrian artist Martin Roth (1977-2019) has filled the entire floor with rubble and sculptural pieces; wild plants settle in the spaces between. A sound installation also stimulates the space: The main sounds are birds imitating technically produced sounds such as ring tones or sirens - an echo of our industrialized life. Roth takes up themes of dislocation, substitution, decay, inequality and disorder and creates subtle symbolic images of the state of our world.
IN OCTOBER 2019 I LISTENED TO ANIMALS IMITATING HUMANS. is his first museum exhibition in Austria, which the artist conceived this spring before his early, unexpected death in his adopted home New York.
Welcome: Bettina Leidl, Director KUNST HAUS WIEN
about the exhibition: Margareta Sandhofer, curator and art critic
about the artist: Margret and Hans Roth, parents, Josie Nash, widow
until 12.01.20