Rebecca Horn
Catalogue presents a comprehensive overview of Rebecca Horn's oeuvre. Since the beginning of the 1970s, Rebecca Horn has been creating an oeuvre consisting of an ever-growing flow of performances, films, sculptures, spatial installations, drawings and photographs. The distinctive character of her world of images consists in the extremely precise physical and technical functionality with which the artist presents her sculptures and the sequences of movements they perform in spaces. The most frequently recurring themes in Horn's work are sexuality, human vulnerability and emotional fragility, which illustrates the richness and complexity of her work. In the first performances, the body-extensions, she explores the equilibrium between body and space. In later works she replaces the human body with kinetic sculptures which take on their own life. Her new works define and cut through spaces with reflections of mirrors, light and music. The interlacing of sculpture and film constitutes a main factor in the work of Rebecca Horn. Catalogue presents genesis of her specific artistic style, including performances of an early period, feature films, installations in Münster, Weimar, Barcelona and Vienna. Catalogue text is enriched with Rebecca Horn's poetry and notes about her artworks.
Texts: Carl Haenlein, Sergio Edelsztein, Martin Mosebach, Doris von Drathen and Rebecca Horn.
Editor: Ursula Zeller
Design: Hans Werner Holzwarth
Published by: Institut für Auslandbeziehungen e.V. (ifa)
Year: 1999
Pages: 197
Dimensions: 25,5 x 20 cm
Languages: English, German
