Roth Gunther Biography
Günter Roth was born in Eschweiler, near Aachen, Germany. After completing his studies at the scientific high school and the School of Arts and Crafts in Germany, in 1956 he moved to Milan to attend the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Here, he received training from the artist Marino Marini. Since the 1960s, Roth has exhibited in various collective and personal exhibitions in Germany and Italy. In this period, he collaborated with Marino Marini and Lucio Fontana and taught design, graphics and planning for twelve years at the technical universities of Aachen and Düsseldorf. During the 1980s, Roth developed a strong interest in primitive sculpture from Africa, Oceania and the northwest coast of America. In 1991, he settled permanently in Milan where he exhibited at the Philippe Daverio Gallery, the Art Fair and participated in various collective exhibitions such as Donne (2006), Il bello, l'arte, la cielo. Europe, Russia, China, Japan (2007) and The incarnation of color and the writing of light (2007), at the Villa San Carlo Borromeo Museum. Spirali dedicated the art books Sculptures and drawings (2004) to Roth, and Michelangelo Buonarroti, Günter Roth (2006) edited by Dong Chun and Shen Dali. Günter Roth's artistic production today focuses on sculpture, where he expresses his originality and variety in shaping form. His work has become a source of comparison between image cultures from various parts of the world and from different eras, where the contribution of Western creators interacts with that of the Primitives and the language of Art brut. Roth's art has been the subject of acute, often provocative, debates over the definition of "art" and its validity.
