Rosemarie Castoro | Oct 25 1968 / Jan 24 1969, 1969 | max goelitz

1968

Medium

Graphite on paper

Dimensions

48.9 × 62.2 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156209

Rosemarie Castoro's conceptual inventory drawings (1968-69) are based on the artist's everyday perceptions, which she structures utlizing herown personal numeric system. In Controlled Arbitrary Statements (1968), the visual reality, or inventories, of the artist's surroundings are arranged in a number system of 1-5. Space, distance, surroundings and their relationships to one another are seemingly rationally defined by measurements. The contradiction in the title exposes the supposed systematization and rationality with subtle humor. In the inventory drawings, Castoro explores the interplay between logic and irrationality and the distance between subjectively perceived and actual reality. As in her Pencil Paintings and Interference Drawings, the formal appearance of the line remains central, which is also the focus of the drawing Oct 25 1968 / Jan 24 1969 (1968-69). This refers to Castoro's almost obsessive attention to time in a reference system of diagonal lines and dates, which - as in Controlled Arbitrary Statements - cannot be interpreted by the viewer without knowledge of the system. In contrast to Pencil Paintings, in which materiality and spatial effect play a central role alongside the line, the drawings point to Castoro's increasing turn towards Conceptual Art from 1968 onwards and have a recording character.