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<i>Small garden gnome as squirrel food sculpture</i> (Kleiner Gartenzwerg als Eichhörnchenfutterplastik).

Dieter Roth. Small garden gnome as squirrel food sculpture (Kleiner Gartenzwerg als Eichhörnchenfutterplastik). 1969

Multiple of chocolate, birdseed and plastic gnome, 12 3/8 x 6 1/8" (31.5 x 15.5 cm). Publisher: Klaus Staeck, Heidelberg. Fabricator: the artist, Düsseldorf. Edition: 200. Dieter Roth Foundation, Hamburg. © Dieter Roth Estate. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Dieter Roth Foundation

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Between 1968 and 1970 Roth worked extensively with chocolate as a medium for multiples. The material is something of a national obsession in Switzerland, where average consumption is twice that of other countries, and it also has dual connotations of pleasure and revulsion, considering its unmistakable resemblance to excrement.