The artist presents two sculptural installations and some drawings. The installation in the first gallery consists of small mechanical hammers, which tap on the walls. In the main gallery a new installation employs cast skulls, light and mirrors. In gallery 2, a group of drawings suggest personal, metaphorical, and metaphysical influences through dynamic gesture.
Twilight Transit
Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce Twilight Transit, a major
exhibition of new work by Rebecca Horn. The opening of the exhibition
will take place on Thursday, October 27th from 6pm until 8pm. The artist
will be present.
Rebecca Horn's exhibition is comprised of two sculptural installations
and a group of new large-scale drawings.
The installation in the first
gallery consists of several small mechanical hammers, which
continuously tap on the walls. In the main gallery a new installation
(above) employs cast skulls, light and mirrors, which reflect the viewer,
the sculptures themselves and the skulls, while simultaneously reflecting
light in the gallery, the whole evoking the inescapability of the passage
of time and mortality.
In gallery 2, a group of
important drawings, the scale of which are determined by the extent of
Horn's reach, suggest personal, metaphorical, and metaphysical
influences through dynamic gesture. These fascinating new drawings
clearly relate to Horn's early performances pieces in which she
extended the body sculpturally into space with a performative
component.
Concurrent with the exhibition opening on October 27th is the launch of
an important new monograph, Rebecca Horn, Moon Mirror. Site-specific
Installations 1982-2005, with texts by Richard Cork, Doris von Drathen,
Steven Henry Madoff, and Rebecca Horn, published by the Kunstmuseum
Stuttgart, Germany, and Hatje Cantz. Rebecca Horn and two of the
authors, Doris von Drathen and Steven Henry Madoff, will be present to
sign copies of the monograph at the opening.
Rebecca Horn, (born in Germany in 1944), is without question one of the
seminal artists of our time. Horn's work, has historically ranged over an
extensive variety of media, including film, performance,
installation, photography and sculpture, whilst addressing themes of
corporeality, perception and philosophy.
The employment of such wide
ranging interests as science and alchemy, the rational and the
intuitive, the mechanical and the sensual has occurred repeatedly in her
work over the last three decades and resulted in one of the most distinct
and individual oeuvres in recent memory. Horn has
participated in the Venice Biennale, the Biennale of Sydney, and is one
of very few artists who has been selected to participate in Documenta on
four separate occasions.
Horn's work is included in major public collections worldwide
including: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of
Modern Art, New York; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia;
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy; The Tate
Gallery, London; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco;
The Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven and many
others.
Opening: October 27 th from 6pm until 8pm
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