Rebecca Horn
dal 15/10/2014 al 21/11/2014
Segnalato da
15/10/2014
Rebecca Horn
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Between the Knives the Emptiness. Her sculptures continue the tradition of the animate object. Here she is exhibiting a selection of 3d works and large paintings on paper. At the bookshop: Jannis Kounellis, drawings and multiples.
For her second
solo
show
at Galerie Lelong, Rebecca Horn
is exhibiting
a
selection
of mobile
sculptures and large paintings on paper.
Her sculptures
continue
the tradition of the animate object, a
legacy of Dada, surrealism and kinetic art, drawing on many literary, alchemical
or sexual references.
Rebecca Horn was born in 1944; she lives in Germany, near Frankfurt where she has set up
the
Moontower Foundation
in the
village
of her birth.
Her work is exhibited in the world’s leading
museums
including the Guggenheim and the
MoMA, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Tate Gallery, London, the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou,
Paris.
She has been invited on a number of occasions to the
Documenta and the Venice
Biennial.
In 2010, she was awarded the
Praemium Imperiale
in the sculpture category.
Bilingual French
-
English catalogue,
Repères n° 160,
text
by
Doris von Drathen
Image: Rebecca Horn, Between the Knives the Emptiness, 2014
At the bookshop:
Jannis Kounellis: drawings and multiples.
Vernissage Thursday 16 October from 6pm
Galerie Lelong
13, rue de Téhéran 75008 Paris
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday: from 10am to 6pm
Saturdays: from 2pm to 6.30pm