Original copies of this super rare single, comes in standard white cover. A fascinating glimpse into one of contemporary art's most intensive collaborations has emerged in the form of Arnulf Rainer & Dieter Roth's 'Ratio-Konditio gespräch', a rare 7" single that captures the raw creative dialogue between two titans of European avant-garde art.
From 1973 to 1980, Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth (1930-1998) and Austrian abstract expressionist Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929) forged what would become one of the most productive artistic partnerships of the post-war era. Working together in Vienna, they produced an extraordinary body of collaborative drawings, paintings, overpainted photographs, and films that challenged conventional boundaries between individual and collective creation. This remarkable 7" single, released by Edition Lebeer-Hossmann in 1979, documents a radio interview recorded on March 17th, 1979, at Radiostudio der RAKORO in Vienna. The recording captures both artists discussing their current exhibition in Vienna as part of their 'Ratio-Konditio' activities as a duo, specifically relating to their historic "Misch und Trennkunst" (Mixed and Separated Art) exhibition at Galerie Klewan in Munich.
More than mere documentation, this is sound art in its most unvarnished form—an unceremonious, lively conversation punctuated by strange extraneous noises that offer an intimate window into the creative process of two groundbreaking artists. The recording embodies the experimental spirit that defined their collaboration, where traditional artistic boundaries dissolved into something entirely new.