Untitled
Rosemarie Trockel
German, born 1952
1992
An ink-on-paper drawing in which Rosemarie Trockel uses thick, repetitive black brushstrokes to suggest a head in profile with an exaggerated, probe-like nose, testing the boundary between depiction and pure gesture.
What strikes you is how dense, velvety coils of ink coalesce into a single silhouette against the white page, so that each animated brushstroke is both an individual mark and part of an unexpectedly legible human profile.
The piece exemplifies Trockel’s project of collapsing figure and process—blurring abstraction and representation—and reflects 1990s debates about authorship, identity, and the politics of making by making the act of mark‑making visible as the subject.
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
13 3/4 x 13 3/4" (35 x 35 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchased with funds given by Agnes Gund
Accession
814.1996
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