Rosemarie Trockel
False Alarm
"False Alarm" by Rosemarie Trockel is a machine-knitted wool work that subverts traditional notions of domestic femininity by repurposing a craft historically associated with women into a bold conceptual statement. Computer-generated patterns are printed onto the yarn, merging the handmade with industrial production and challenging the boundaries between fine art and so-called "women's work." Through this deceptively simple medium, Trockel confronts the male-dominated art world of 1980s Germany with a sharp feminist critique embedded in every stitch.
- Medium
- In 1985, Rosemarie Trockel began to use wool to create ‘knitting pictures.’ Intent on subverting wool’s traditional connotations of domestic femininity, she employed machine-made yarn, and printed the substance with computer-generated graphic patterns and motifs such as the Playboy bunny. As part of a young German art scene dominated by men such as Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke, her challenge to the 1980s avant-garde was a bold questioning of hierarchies that inheres in her materials. Working in drawing, collage, ceramics, video and more, hers is a heterogeneous practice unified only by a piercing feminist gaze. This disconcertingly diverse output tackles tensions and difficulty with ferocious intelligence. From her cooking hobs hung on the wall as Minimalist sculpture to
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
June 29, 2015
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