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Martin Roth
Martin Roth (born 1977) is an Austrian artist living and working in New York City.

Work
Much of Martin Roth's work revolves around the introduction of living organisms  into a setting or situation circumscribed by the artist. Roth's work, while frequently ephemeral or temporary is saturated in space. On one level, there is the physical dimension of spaces large, and small: from the quaint miniature landscapes or rocks and plants inside glass cages housing lizards or mice , to the compact grid of a lavender field   shaped by the artist's arrangement in a white cube; from the beautiful patterned garden of Persian rugs sprouting verdant grass  , or the tepid lagoon created by flooding a gallery space  , to the thrust of a cherry sapling through a laminate surface , demonstrating the interplay between an exposed space above and subterranean space  below that characterizes several of Roth's installations. These physical settings often interweave with or generate acoustic spaces to create the conditions for – and are, in turn, shaped by – the natural organism that inhabit them. His work can be large-scale and particular to a site , the fact that it requires the nurture of living organisms  makes it strangely intimate and invites the viewer if not to engage directly , at least to consider his or her relationship to the work on a human scale.