Rosemarie Trockel (1952, Schwerte, Germany) works in a variety of media, including sculpture, collage, ceramics, textiles, drawing and photography. In the 1980s, she began using computer technology to produce a series of ‘paintings’ in knitted wool, some of which are handmade by people she recruited via classified advertising. For others, such as Untitled (1985), the artist used computer technology to weave the patterns. With these works, the artist says she ‘tried to take wool, which was viewed as a woman’s material, out of this context and to rework it in a neutral process of production’. The works in this series feature emblematic logos of famous brands, also playing on the opposition generally established between applied arts and industrial production. Here, the symbol repeated in the composition is a trademark used to identify wool products quality—acquired by the Woolmark company in 1998.