Rebecca Horn
dal 1/10/2004 al 9/1/2005
Segnalato da
1/10/2004
Rebecca Horn
K20 Kunstsammlung, Dusseldorf
Bodylandscapes. Drawings, sculptures, installations 1964 – 2004. In this representative overview, the Kunstsammlung shows around 15 objects and large-scale works from the past 40 years. This presentation is especially significant for its inclusion of ca. 85 works on paper. Shown here for the first time in such breadth, this complex of works from Rebecca Horn's oeuvre facilitates an understanding of the intensive and fruitful dialogue between the rich graphic production and the sculptural projects, while foregrounding the originality and authenticity of the works on paper themselves.
Bodylandscapes
Drawings, sculptures, installations 1964 – 2004
Rebecca Horn – an internationally renowned artist and recipient of numerous awards – is widely known for her mechanical objects and mobile sculptures, her installations and architecturally orientated works, all of them striking for their rich inventiveness and high quality. Also greatly acclaimed are Horn's films, which cover a broad spectrum, ranging from the experimental to the narrative, and brilliantly annexing the poetic to the surreal while drawing shocking effects from the plausible and the commonplace.
In this representative overview, the Kunstsammlung shows around 15 objects and large-scale works from the past 40 years. This presentation is especially significant for its inclusion of ca. 85 works on paper. Shown here for the first time in such breadth, this complex of works from Rebecca Horn's oeuvre facilitates an understanding of the intensive and fruitful dialogue between the rich graphic production and the sculptural projects, while foregrounding the originality and authenticity of the works on paper themselves.
On display alongside pieces such as Paradieswitwe (1975), Spiralbad (1982),
Les Amants (1991), and the room-filling Circle for Broken Landscape (1997) and Book of Ashes (2002), will be the light-sound installation Light imprisoned in the Belly of the Whale (2002).
A new work, Yin Yang Drawing the Landscape (2004), has been created expressly for the Düsseldorf venue. Juxtaposed with these objects will be a selection of the artist's graphic works, which are themselves organized into cycles. Rebecca Horn began producing drawings in the 1960s; some have served as preparatory aids for her sculptures, or were produced in connection with three dimensional works, while others possess a fully independent character. Taking the forms of diagrams, musical scores, technical sketches and apparently spontaneous brush sketches, some are enhanced by collage elements, individual words, or lines of poetry.
The exhibition will be accompagnied by a small brochure free of charge which can also be downloaded soon under the web site.
A selection of Horn's films will be screened in the audiovisual room, among them Performances I and II (1970 – 1973) and Buster's Bedroom (1990).
KPMG Event
Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 7:00 p.m.: Gabriele Brandstetter, Prof. fuer Theater-
wissenschaften an der Freien Universität Berlin: Lecture about Rebecca Horn's film Buster's Bedroom (1990), followed by film presentation in English, 104 min.
Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 7:00 p.m.: Doris von Drathen, journalist and author of art books, Paris: An evening about Rebecca Horn
K20 Kunstsammlung
am Grabbeplatz
Grabbeplatz 5
40213 Düsseldorf