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Artist Martin Roth has died, aged 41
The artist's last solo exhibition centred on gun violence
Roth’s last solo exhibition was held in New York’s since-closed gallery Yours, Mine and Ours in 2018 and was centred on a desert plant stolen from the garden of
Stephen Paddock,
the man behind the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas. Roth hoped the poignant installation would “act as a symbol of hope or healing
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Martin Roth: I collected a plant from the garden of a mass shooter at Yours Mine and Ours Gallery
artist’s bizarre commemorative of the worst mass shooting ever to have taken place in American history. The colorful carpet, a mixture of irregular patterns against a red background, is a reproduction of the hallway carpet that led to Paddock’s room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Roth incorporated drawings of the desert holly into the duplicated carpet. In the middle of the room is a large vitrine, in which gravel local to Paddock’s environs covered the floor, with the desert holly plant occupying the center.
https://artefuse.com/2018/04/26/martin-roth-at-yours-mine-and-ours-gallery-125501/