The most original and fecund Swiss artist of his generation, Rot began as a graphic designer, and so it is scarcely surprising that he has published over a hundred books, many of which rank as extraordinary book-art. He has also exhibited organic materials that change color, not to mention odor, over the course of an exhibition. Allan Kaprow remembers this 1969 piece:
Rot once collected two years of personal trash into transparent plastic bags that were stacked into two pyramids in...