Rings 1959–1973 - Dieter Roth's rings

German
143 pages, numerous illustrations
Stapler in a slipcase
Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne, 2006

Edited by Flurina and Gianni Paravicini-Tönz.
With texts (in the accompanying book) by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Peter Noever, Adalsteinn Ingolfson and an interview with Hans Langenbacher.
Design: Stephan Fiedler.
File folder with over 80 facsimile documents ,
in a sturdy cardboard slipcase.
Accompanying book: Paperback with thread binding.
14.2 × 19.8 cm, numerous black and white and color illustrations.
2006.

Using 80 facsimile original documents (plans, sketches, drawings, letters and postcards), the book conveys the long-standing collaboration between the artist Dieter Roth and Hans Langenbacher, goldsmith in Lucerne and Reykjavik. The documents printed on different papers are stored in a folder. Additional photographic and textual material documents the entire, rich jewelry production. The book with the original documents and the executed rings was the occasion for exhibitions in the mak (Museum of Applied Arts), Vienna and Cologne, in the Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, mudac Lausanne and in the Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris.

Concept: Gianni Paravicini, Stephan Fiedler
Design: Stephan Fiedler