Virtual tour Start the tour with the Piccadilly Slide Show Walltext by guest curator Felicitas Thun “Dieter Roth, My Fatherly Friend” by Jan Voss,” of Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam Six Piccadillies Text Catalog   Dieter Roth, who died in June 1998, was one of this century's most important and influential artists. Painter, sculptor, collagist, diarist, collector, this German-born Swiss artist considered everything as a possible medium for making art—cheese, chocolate, rabbit droppings, and cast-offs of every kind. He was the ultimate cataloguer, not just an accumulator, but a composer with an eye for magically transforming detritus into powerful and original works of art. Often heaped in installations, his quotidian objects, Super-8 film journals, obsessive collections, and categorization of every aspect of his life—in addition to hundreds of unique artist's books and graphic works—make up a monumental gesamtkunstwerk. Roth began as a graphic designer and printmaker when he was quite young. He was a pioneer in the making of artist's books and a prolific draftsman (as well as a visiting artist at Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts, in 1964). His virtuoso drawings—some executed with both hands at once—embody pranksterish humor, obsessive energy, and a dark undertone. "Dieter Roth: Printed Pressed Bound" was shown by the Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design May 26–July 31, 1999. While Roth’s unexpected death in June 1998 has evoked widespread critical attention and appreciation, the Galleries at Moore were the only venue in the United States for this exhibition.

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