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An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural world Im often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.from the introduction Contemporary artist Ron...

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An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural worldI'm often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.-from the introductionContemporary artist Ron...

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An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural world Im often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.from the introduction Contemporary artist Ron...

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This accompanying catalogue to largest exhibition of Matthew Barney's extraordinary drawings to date explores this central aspect of the artist's important body of work. Drawing has always been an incredibly important part of Matthew Barney's prac...

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LOG (March 22, 2019-May 17, 2020), produced daily over a period of fourteen months, is a collection of drawings, quotations, collages, photographs, casual commentaries, notes on news and weather events, and original texts by Roni Horn. Known for c...

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Inspired by the philosopher and writer Helene Cixous, which whom the photographer and artist Roni Horn has collaborated before, Index Cixous questions the nature of language in its most fundamental sense and proposes a version--one without words, ...

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A new book by Roni Horn, Herubrei at Home is a collection of photographs of the landscape of home in Iceland. Herubrei, Icelands much-loved mountain, and Stfan V. Jnsson, who painted the mountain throughout his life, are at the center of this work...

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Hack Wit is a playful and complex body of work developed between 2013 and 2015, using clichs or proverbs and watercolor. For each work, the artist made two watercolors of a different proverb, cut them apart and then combined them into one. The Can...

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"Remembered Words" is the title of a series of watercolorpaintings Roni Horn created in 2013 and 2014. An importantpart of Horn's work revolves around language. In this series she remembers words and pairs them with dots, adding the word...

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In den beiden Zeichnungsserien "Wits? End" erforscht Roni Horn die Bedeutungen und Mehrdeutigkeiten von Sprache und nimmt dabei handschriftliche Redewendungen, Klischees und Umgangssprache als Ausgangsmaterial. Horn bat etwa 300 Personen...

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Much of Roni Horn's artistic practice explores the nuanced relationship between text and image in visual culture. In her methodically rigorous and expertly nuanced artist's book, '82 Postcards', Horn takes the titular media and classifies its phot...

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The Selected Gifts (1974-2015) is a collection of photographs documenting the history of gifts received over the course of the artist's life. Collected together in this book they form a possible self-portrait.

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"A drawing in the Th Rose Prblm cuts together two drawings. Each with one of two phrases. Composing these two phrases in their various iterations: "Rose is a rose is a rose" or "a rose is a rose is a rose" with "come ...

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Dog's Chorus presents an important group of recent drawings by Roni Horn. Following up on the 2016 Th Rose Prblm, Horn cuts apart original drawings of texts and reassembles the fragments into compositions that are cumulative, complex and changeabl...

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Remembered Words, A Specimen Concordance alphabetizes and enumerates all the words used in the 370 drawings made for Roni Horn's series "Remembered Words" (2012-13). Remembering or recalling words, words picked from a life, from experien...

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[Wits' End] intentionally unmoors [Horn's work] from ... something stable, controlled, or fixed. This vast compilation ... has a distinctly random nature and texture that proclaims a certain artistic autonomy from Horn. She is not the author, but ...

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Weather is the key paradox of our time. - Roni Horn

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In 1990 Félix González-Torres encountered an artwork by Roni Horn called Gold Field (1980/82), a simple sheet of gold foil placed on the floor of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. González-Torres was deeply moved and wrote to Horn, begin...

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Working across sculpture, photography, drawing and artist's books, Roni Horn addresses identity, mutability and unease. The title of this book, which accompanies the artist's exhibition of the same name at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, is borrowed f...

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Documenting Horn's elusive light-based installation along the Norwegian Public Roads Administration Scenic Route American artist Roni Horn's (born 1955) installation in Havøysund on the coast of Finnmark in northern Norway consists of two cylindri...

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A recent selection from an acclaimed American artist whose wide-ranging work defies classification This artist's book compiles a selection of work by Roni Horn (born 1955), whose diverse practice spans photography, sculpture, drawing and conc...

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