This publication focuses on an aspect of Rebecca Horn's extraordinarily diverse oeuvre that plays an important role in the formal constitution of her large sculptures and installations--the relationship between the work of art and its architectural setting.The book presents a selection ranging from works of the 1980s to sculptures and installations realized in 2005.
This publication focuses on an aspect of Rebecca Horn's extraordinarily diverse oeuvre that plays an important role in the formal constitution of her large sculptures and installations--the relationship between the work of art and its architectural setting.
The book presents a selection ranging from works of the 1980s to sculptures and installations realized in 2005. In the early Measure Box (1970) and Rooms meet in mirrors 0974/75) the human body is the measure of spatial perception. In the installation entitled Concert in Reverse (1987), the artist works in a building with a dubious political background--the "Zwinger," where countless people were tortured during the Nazi regime--exploring its history and creating a place of remembrance. In Moon Mirror (2003), a work installed in Pollenca, the artist creates a column of air between a fountain constructed with mirrors and an eddy of light beneath the dome of the convent church. At the point at which the Orient and the Occident meet, the moon is captured as a "vehicle of human vision and expression." The viewer descends into the depths of the fountain and transcends his own horizon in order to survey the heavens anew.
MARION ACKERMANN
Foreword
RICHARD CORK
A Special Place
STEVEN HENRY MADOFF
Hinge Life
DORIS VON DRATHEN
Places at the Zero Point
REBECCA HORN
Site-Specific Installations 1982-2005
MOON MIRROR Pollenca2003
SPIRITI DI MADREPERLA Napoli2002
CAPUZZELLE Napoli2005
OCEANLIGHT TREES Niigata2003
LUMIRE EN PRISON DANS LE VENTRE DE LA BALEINE Paris 2002
HEARTSHADOWS New York 2002
DREI GRAZlEN Berlin 2000
VERSPIEGELTES PLANETENSYSTEM Berlin 2000
LA LUNE DANS LE LAC MIROIR AU PLEIN CCEUR
DE LA PERLE Avignon 2000
PICCOLI SPIRITI BLU Torino 1999
KONZERT FOR BUCHENWALD Weimar1999
SPIEGEL DER NACHT Stommeln 1998
LES DELICES DES EVEQUES Munster1997
FUNERAILLES DES INSTRUMENTS Paris 1995
THE INFERNO PARADISO SWITCH New York 1993
TURM DER NAMENLOSEN Wien 1994
THE TURTLE SIGHING TREE New York 1994
CONCERTO DEI SOSPIRI Venezia1997
DER MOND, DAS KIND, DER ANARCHISTISCHE FLUSS Kassel 1992
HIGH MOON New York 1991
EL RIO DE LA LUNA Barcelona 1992
EL LUCERO HERIDO Barcelona 1992
ENDLICHKEIT DER FREIHEIT Berlin 1990
MISSING FULL MOON Bath 1989
HYDRA FOREST Pittsburgh 1988
DAS GEGENLAUFIGE KONZERT MUnster 1987
DIE SlZlLIANISCHE PALASTREISE Wien 1986
BAD DER VERSPIEGELTEN TAUTROPFEN Geneve 1985
PFAUENMASCHINE Kassel 1982
List of Installations and Works
Biography, Solo Exhibitions,
Group Exhibitions, Filmography, Monographs