summer colors

06.16.10 / Comments (2)

I want to live in these bright colors for awhile. Let’s forget about the grey weather that’s been prevailing our Portland skies.

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dieter roth

I needed an afternoon to myself. So, I stopped what I was doing Friday, grabbed a coffee at my favorite café, then I wandered into Monograph Bookwerks – a beautifully curated shop in the northeast ‘hood of Portland. And, I picked up this book…

During the 1970s, Dieter Roth published a series of ads in a Swiss newspaper. The content of this series – disturbing, poetic and aggressive. This is the first complete publication of Roth’s ads, previously only published as artist’s books.

Dieter Roth, Inserate/Advertisements, 1971/72

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