Artist
Roth, Dieter
Video (3 Schede)
Code 0033E Edition
Taschenzimmer
1968-1987
Multiple of banana slice
on stamped paper in plastic box
Published by VICE-Versand, Remscheid No. FXC8139
1. 1968
Plastic box, 11 x 7.5 x 1.8 cm.
containing banana slice on printed paper
Signed with monogram
2. 1973
Plastic box, 10 x 7 x 2 cm.
containing banana slice on printed paper
with original cardboard box
Signed with monogram
3. 1987
Plastic box, 11 x 7.5 x 1.8 cm.
containing banana slice on printed paper
Signed with monogram
Taschenzimmer (Pocket Room) consists of a slice of banana pressed onto a card that is rubber-stamped with the image of a table, housed in a plastic playingcard box small enough to fit into the owner’s pocket. The banana slices have gradually grown mold and decomposed; decay has progressed differently in each example, and so each object in the edition is unique. The work was commissioned by VICE-Versand, a German publisher that produced unlimited editions and sold them at modest prices. Issued continuously from 1968 until the late 1980s, this is Roth’s most widely circulated multiple.
Bibl.: P. Schmieder "Unlimitiert", Cologne 1998, p. 133.
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