RONI
HORN aka RONI HORN
Roni Horn
Hardbound,
7½" x 9½", 430
pages
375 color illustrations
2009, Steidl & Partners
Introduction by Donna De Salvo, Carter E. Foster, Mark Godfrey
Text by Briony Fer
From the Publisher:
Over the course of more than 30 years, Roni
Horn has developed a body of work of concentrated visual power,
classical in its restraint, beauty and sensitivity to material.
Horn's pieces invite conceptual engagement, though her practice
defies easy categorization, and also elicit in the viewer a refreshed
attention to matter itself, to make being here enough' (as the
title of a previous monograph put it). Her subtle explorations
of the complex energies between object and subject have expanded
the vocabulary of every medium in which she works. This slipcased,
two-volume set accompanies the most comprehensive overview of
Horn's work to date-which opens at Tate Modern in London in February
2009 and then travels to New York's Whitney Museum of American
Art in November of that same year-and has been overseen by the
artist herself. The first volume includes a plate section of works
in the exhibition with an essay by Briony Fer; the second volume,
the subject index, is fully illustrated and includes texts on
a variety of topics related to Horn's work by a host of prominent
artists, critics, curators and cultural figures, alongside the
artist's own writing.
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