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17/1/2008

Roni Horn

CAC Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga

CAC Málaga, Málaga City Council’s Centre for Contemporary Art, presents the first solo exhibition in Spain by Roni Horn, one of the most influential American artists on the international art scene. The exhibition may be visited until 30 March and is made up of photographs, installations and two artists’ books.

Málaga’s Contemporary Art Centre opens its doors to the most representative works produced over the last decade by the incomparable Roni Horn. In this, the first solo exhibition to be presented by the artist in Spain, the guiding thread is the portrait, a medium she has developed to its full potential in recent years.

In the words of the Director of CAC Málaga, Fernando Francés, Roni Horn creates an aesthetic in her work that is decidedly contradictory, bringing out strange sensations and a surprising attraction in the viewer. This is not conventional minimalist art; far from the usual distanced approach, Roni Horn’s work has much greater warmth because it has an immediate effect on our emotions, with the artist taking a direct stand on the issues that concern her, such as femininity, human roles, and nature and its relationship to the human being. She is fascinated by individuality, the particular rather than the general, the real, identifiable woman above the others. This apparently straightforward, even simple image masks a really complex process of observation and documentation of human experiences and memories.

Through her painstaking, meticulous work this American artist captures the tiniest, most imperceptible changes in reality, thereby highlighting the importance of observation and perception.

All of the works on display in the exhibition are now unquestioned masterpieces of the artist, and one of the most famous and recognised is Doubt by Water. The piece consists of twelve images produced as six, double-sided photographs mounted on aluminium stands. Their contents include ice, a portrait of a young person and the heads of several stuffed birds which are so incredibly lifelike that spectators can easily become confused as to the nature of what they are seeing. As much in this work as in the others, water is an element to which the artist constantly returns. As she herself says, “Aside from the physical, sensual reality of water, the thing that I love is its paradoxical nature[…] I never intended to have water in everything I do, but I almost feel that I rediscover it again and again”.

Besides viewing the photographs and installations, visitors to the exhibition at CAC Málaga will be able to consult two of her latest publications. The titles of these works are Index Cixous, inspired by the author Hélène Cixous, and Weather Reports You, which may be defined as a collective portrait of Iceland, a land she knows to perfection.

Roni Horn, one of the most renowned American artists of her time, has produced an extensive oeuvre in a variety of mediums including sculpture, photography, drawing, essays and artists’ books. Her work falls within the minimalist current, albeit a warm minimalism abounding in personal and poetic references. Her work represents a connecting link between humanity and nature. Since 1975 Horn has lived her life between New York and Iceland, a country with which she maintains close contact and whose scenery and isolation from the rest of the world have been a decisive influence on evolution of her work.

Further information:
CAC Málaga Communication Department Tel.: (+34) 952120055 prensa@cacmalaga.org

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