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Roth Bar is a vibrant, informal celebration of Somerset and the West Country, situated at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, a pioneering world-class art gallery occupying a former farmstead in Bruton. The bar plays an integral part in the overall gallery experience.
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Artist Oddur Roth, grandson of the late German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth, lived and worked in Bruton, UK between January and April 2024. Alongside his team, Einar Roth, Bjarni Grímsson, Sigrún Holmgeirsdottir, Thrandur Gíslason Roth and Gudmundur Oddur Magnusson, they reimagined Roth Bar as a new fully functioning, site-specific artwork within the Threshing Barn at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.
Inspired by the history of Durslade Farm, Roth Bar in Somerset is composed of salvaged materials and objects from reclamation yards in the surrounding area.
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Angel Otero. Agua Salada
(2nd May – 18th October )
Angel Otero makes his UK debut this spring, featuring a deeply personal body of work completed during an artist residency at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.
Known for his physically immersive approach to paint as material, Otero transforms the medium itself—scraping, layering and peeling dried oil paint to create richly textured compositions that hover between abstraction and figuration. Moving his studio practice from New York and Puerto Rico temporarily to Somerset, the residency provides Otero with the opportunity to continue his exploration of memory, place and meaning in the context of a new environment.
The exhibition marks an expansion of Otero’s practice beyond the canvas, translating his fascination with process, materiality and time into sculptural installations and moving image.
Image: Angel Otero, The Room That Learned to Breathe (detail), 2026 © Angel Otero. Photo: Javier Romero
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