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Roni Horn (1955 - )
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 Roni
Horn (Contemporary Artists) by Louise Neri, Lynne
Cooke, Thierry De Duve, Clarice Lispector, Thierry de Duve
This comprehensive monograph documents the work
of Roni Horn, the natural successor to 1960s Minimalists Donald
Judd, Sol LeWitt et al, but with a markedly 1980s to 1990s
conceptual twist. Horn "disguises" her work as
Minimalism, but infuses it with personal poetic references and
unexpected emotion. Initially working only in sculpture, in
industrial materials in machine-made forms, in recent years the
artist has also turned to producing photographs, often of her
"adopted" country Iceland, which she has visited
regularly for the past 25 years. These photographs capture the
subtle changes in lighting and mood in dozens of images of the
same subject. Groupings of sculptures and photographs are often
drawn together in large installations which, in the barely
perceptible changes from one work to the next, demand the viewer's
full attention.
 Roni
Horn: Another Water by Roni Horn (Photographer)
In this exquisitely produced artist's book, New
York artist Roni Horn photographed the River Thames in London,
exploring the theme of water as an ever-present, life-creating
spiritual and physiological force that influences every
undercurrent of our existence. Combining selected text with 47
full color, double-page spreads of the river's ever-changing
surface, Horn has inserted footnotes that reference poems, short
stories, records of dark and light events that took place in the
river or on its shores, as well as the artist's own poetic
reflections. An additional level is introduced by interspersed,
so-called "Dead Body Reports", collected from the logs
of Scotland Yard, that tell incredible and sometimes shocking
stories of suicides and accidents whose secrets the River Thames
will never fully reveal to us.
About the Author
Roni Horn was born in
1955 in New York. Since earning her MFA from Yale in 1978, her
sculptures, installations, and photographs have been shown
extensively throughout the world. Previous photography books
include the seven-volume project To Place, consisting of: Bluff
Life (1990), Folds (1991), Lava (1992), Pooling Waters (1994),
Verne's Journey (1995), Haraldsdottir (1996), and Arctic Circles
(1998). She lives and works in New York.
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This interview was held in Basel in June, 1995
shortly after the opening of the two exhibitions at the Museum für
Gegenwartskunst and at the Kunsthalle. Whereas the show in the
Museum für Gegenwartskunst concentrated on works on paper, in the
Kunsthalle show, titled Making Being Here Enough, samples of all
the different aspects of the work of Roni Horn were presented...
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The American artist Roni Horn was selected for
her photographic installation Still Water (The River Thames,
for Example). Inspired by the murky waters of The Thames,
Still Water (The River Thames, for Example) is a series of
large format photographs framed by footnotes of text. Like a
chorus of voices resonating from the river, the text draws the
viewer towards the surface of the image. Up close to the
photographs, the viewer becomes surrounded by eddies and currents,
interwoven with fragments of anecdotes and thoughts written by
Horn over the course of a year. Describing the work herself, Horn
said: 'Much of it was written as reverie, my reverie, evolving
quickly into a manic, litany with chorus-like elements... I wrote
these notes in the solitude of myself but I did so anticipating
your arrival...'
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Excerpt:
Androgyny, desire and the nature of language are
constant themes. Her work often employs texts by Emily Dickinson,
a poet she has long been fascinated by. The words are inscribed in
aluminum columns with plastic letters, installed askew, so that
one cannot read then immediately but must move around to
reconstitute the lines. Walking and looking become obvious
components of reading. Reading is avowedly a physical process,
though the words remain immaculate, certain, unlike the uncertain
body that moves around them...
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