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Roni Horn has built a body of work in a variety of media that engages physical space and consistently assigns an active role to the viewer. For this exhibition, Horn has created three new photographic series and a sculpture in glass, continuing her interests in the construction of identity. Through juxtaposed sequences of images of facial expressions and natural phenomena, Horn explores the relationship between the instantaneity of photography and the play of constancy and metamorphosis in nature and human emotion.
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| Checklist of Works |
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Part I
1. This is Me, This is You, 1999–2000
96 photographs
each 12.5 x 10.25 inches
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2. Some Thames, 2000
32 of 80 photographs
each 25 x 38 inches
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
3. Clowd and Cloun (Gray), 2001
28 photographs: 14 of 16 cloud images,
27 x 35 inches; 14 of 16 clown images,
27 x 27 inches
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
4. Untitled (Yes)–1, 2001
glass
46 x 26.5 x 17 inches
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
5. Untitled (Yes)–2, 2001
glass
46 x 26.5 x 17 inches
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Part II
1. This is Me, This is You, 1999–2000
96 photographs
each 12.5 x 10.25 inches
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2. Clowd and Cloun (Blue), 2001
32 photographs: 16 cloud images, 27 x 35 inches; 16 clown images, 27 x 27 inches
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
3. Becoming a Landscape, 2001
20 images in 10 pairs: 6 images, 21 x 21 inches; 14 images, 24 x 31 inches
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
4. Untitled (Yes)–1, 2001
glass
46 x 26.5 x 17 inches
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
5. Untitled (Yes)–2, 2001
glass
46 x 26.5 x 17 inches
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
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| Selected Bibliography |
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This is Me, This is You. Paris: Edition 7L, 2002.
Dictionary of Water. Paris: Edition 7L, 2001. Text by Roni Horn.
Still Water. Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe, 2000. Texts by Jan Avgikos, Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo, and Roni Horn.
Another Water. Zurich: Scalo, 2000. Text by Roni Horn.
Roni Horn. London: Phaidon Press, 2000. Texts by Thierry De Duve, Roni Horn, Clarice Lispector, and Louise Neri, and an interview by Lynne Cooke.
Events of Relation. Paris: Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1999. Texts by Marie-Laure Bernadac, Roni Horn, and Nancy Spector, and an interview by Laurent Bossé.
You Are the Weather. Zurich: Scalo Verlag, in association with the Fotomuseum Winterthur, 1997.
Earth Grow Thick. Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, 1996. Texts by Amada Cruz, Emily Dickinson, Sherri Geldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, bell hooks, Judith Hoos Fox, and Sarah J. Rogers.
Making Being Here Enough. Installations from 1980 to 1995. Basel: Kunsthalle, in association with Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, 1995. Texts by Roni Horn and Thomas Kellein.
Gurgles, Sucks, Echoes. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1995. Text by Lynne Tillman.
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| Selected Artists Books |
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TO PLACE, ongoing limited-edition book series:
Book 1: Bluff Life. New York: Peter Blum Edition, 1990. 14 color images; edition of 1150; special edition of 150; 36 pp.
Book 2: Folds. New York: Mary Boone Gallery, 1991. 36 color images; letterpress; edition of 700; 72 pp.
Book 3: Lava. New York: Roni Horn, 1992. 16 color and 29 tritone images; letterpress; edition of 750; special edition of 100; 92 pp.
Book 4: Pooling Water. Cologne: Walther König, 1994. 2 vols.; English and Icelandic text; edition of 1000; special edition of 6. Vol. 1: 27 color and 25 duotone images; 96 pp. Vol. 2: 4 color images; 176 pp.
Book 5: Verne’s Journey. Cologne: Walther König, 1995. 19 color and 8 duotone images; edition of 1000; 56 pp.
Book 6: Haraldsdóttir. Denver: Ginny Williams, 1996. 30 color and 31 duotone images; edition of 1000; special edition of 100; 96 pp.
Book 7: Arctic Circles. Denver: Ginny Williams, 1998. 67 color and 7 duotone images; edition of 1650; 140 pp.
Book 8: Becoming a Landscape. Denver: Ginny Williams, 2001. 2 vols., each 22 color images and 44 pp.; edition of 900; special edition of 100
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| Biography |
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Roni Horn was born in 1955 in New York, where she continues to live and work. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975 and an MFA from Yale University in 1978. Since her first solo show at the Kunstraum in Munich in 1980, she has exhibited widely and was included in such major shows as the Venice Biennale (1997) and Documenta IX (1992). Recent one-person exhibitions were presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2000); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999); De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, the Netherlands (1998; 1994); Fotomuseum Winterthur (1997); and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (1996). Horn's Things That Happen Again (1986) has been a long-term exhibition at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, since 1989.
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| Funding |
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Support for this exhibition has been provided by Lannan Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Werner Kramarsky, and the members of the Dia Art Council.
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