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Containers

Dieter Roth

1971/73

Containers is a boxed portfolio by the Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth, published by Petersburg Press in London and Roth’s own studio in Solothurn. This is the complete set of 33 signed and numbered prints in ...

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Containers

Dieter Roth

1971/73

London and Solothurn: Petersburg Press and Dieter Roth

Folder with various prints inside a cardboard box

54 × 66 cm

Edition of 85; signed and numbered 8/85

Containers is a boxed portfolio by the Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth, published by Petersburg Press in London and Roth’s own studio in Solothurn. This is the complete set of 33 signed and numbered prints in various mediums, on various papers, made between 1971 and 1973. Each print is signed and dated in pencil, as is the portfolio box, which measures 54 × 66 cm.

The work is more than a collection of images: the cardboard box that houses the prints is part of the piece. This reflects Roth’s long-standing interest in everyday materials, ephemerality, and the blurring of art object and container. The humble, mass-produced packaging questions the preciousness of the traditional print portfolio, and the variety of mediums and papers within shows Roth’s restless, experimental approach to printmaking. It sits comfortably within his wider practice of artist’s books, multiples, and editions, where process, accumulation, and the everyday are central.

London and Solothurn: Petersburg Press and Dieter Roth

Folder with various prints inside a cardboard box

54 × 66 cm

Edition of 85; signed and numbered 8/85

Containers is a boxed portfolio by the Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth, published by Petersburg Press in London and Roth’s own studio in Solothurn. This is the complete set of 33 signed and numbered prints in various mediums, on various papers, made between 1971 and 1973. Each print is signed and dated in pencil, as is the portfolio box, which measures 54 × 66 cm.

The work is more than a collection of images: the cardboard box that houses the prints is part of the piece. This reflects Roth’s long-standing interest in everyday materials, ephemerality, and the blurring of art object and container. The humble, mass-produced packaging questions the preciousness of the traditional print portfolio, and the variety of mediums and papers within shows Roth’s restless, experimental approach to printmaking. It sits comfortably within his wider practice of artist’s books, multiples, and editions, where process, accumulation, and the everyday are central.

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Containers is a boxed portfolio by the Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth, published by Petersburg Press in London and Roth’s own studio in Solothurn. This is the complete set of 33 signed and numbered prints in various mediums, on various papers, made between 1971 and 1973. Each print is signed and dated in pencil, as is the portfolio box, which measures 54 × 66 cm.

The work is more than a collection of images: the cardboard box that houses the prints is part of the piece. This reflects Roth’s long-standing interest in everyday materials, ephemerality, and the blurring of art object and container. The humble, mass-produced packaging questions the preciousness of the traditional print portfolio, and the variety of mediums and papers within shows Roth’s restless, experimental approach to printmaking. It sits comfortably within his wider practice of artist’s books, multiples, and editions, where process, accumulation, and the everyday are central.

London and Solothurn: Petersburg Press and Dieter Roth

Folder with various prints inside a cardboard box

54 × 66 cm

Edition of 85; signed and numbered 8/85

Containers is a boxed portfolio by the Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth, published by Petersburg Press in London and Roth’s own studio in Solothurn. This is the complete set of 33 signed and numbered prints in various mediums, on various papers, made between 1971 and 1973. Each print is signed and dated in pencil, as is the portfolio box, which measures 54 × 66 cm.

The work is more than a collection of images: the cardboard box that houses the prints is part of the piece. This reflects Roth’s long-standing interest in everyday materials, ephemerality, and the blurring of art object and container. The humble, mass-produced packaging questions the preciousness of the traditional print portfolio, and the variety of mediums and papers within shows Roth’s restless, experimental approach to printmaking. It sits comfortably within his wider practice of artist’s books, multiples, and editions, where process, accumulation, and the everyday are central.

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Containers is a boxed portfolio by the Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth, published by Petersburg Press in London and Roth’s own studio in Solothurn. This is the complete set of 33 signed and numbered prints in various mediums, on various papers, made between 1971 and 1973. Each print is signed and dated in pencil, as is the portfolio box, which measures 54 × 66 cm.

The work is more than a collection of images: the cardboard box that houses the prints is part of the piece. This reflects Roth’s long-standing interest in everyday materials, ephemerality, and the blurring of art object and container. The humble, mass-produced packaging questions the preciousness of the traditional print portfolio, and the variety of mediums and papers within shows Roth’s restless, experimental approach to printmaking. It sits comfortably within his wider practice of artist’s books, multiples, and editions, where process, accumulation, and the everyday are central.

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