Description: LOG (March 22, 2019 - May 17, 2020) transforms personal experience into an emotionally profound, visual manifestation. This is a beguiling and immersive body of work that invites repeated viewing.
Brief description:
Roni Horn lives and works in New York City. Her oeuvre focuses on conceptually oriented photography, sculpture, books and drawing. Since 1975, Horn has traveled extensively in the more remote landscapes of Iceland -- these solitary experiences have long been important influences in her life and work. Literature and Horn's prodigious reading have had a similarly profound impact on her work across various media. The sculpture is often paired or doubled, as are the drawings and photographs. Her solo exhibitions include Tate Modern; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Centre Pompidou; Kunsthalle Bregenz; Kunsthalle Hamburg; Kunsthalle Basel; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; De Pont Foundation, Tilburg; Fondation Beyeler; Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and The Drawing Institute at The Menil Collection, Houston, TX.
Review Quotes:
Praise for LOG:
"Entering LOG, you engage the active multiplicity of Roni Horn's boundless mind in full bloom. You move into gold dust: a multiform epic of play and insight. Tidbits, jottings, doodles. Drawings, photos, writings. Heard, read, seen, sensed. Pondered, annotated, and arranged into a symphonic treasury of pure Roni Horn."
--Julie Ault, artist, curator, and editor
"As the days progress, entries on travel and photos of celebrities . . . fade away, text gets denser and images of natural disasters emerge. So does an appreciation for what the pandemic cannot change: the wildlife that flourishes outside Horn's upstate studio, or the cheery lights on a majestic skyscraper at night. Together, the images speak to how we acclimatize over time. . . . But Horn's LOG is also a record of how we can try to survive in times of change: we watch Audrey Hepburn movies, we photograph the wildlife and sometimes we look up at the buildings and notice how strange it is that the lights are still on."
--Adriane Quinlan, T: The New York Times Style Magazine
"Throughout her career, Horn has considered the openness of exchange, the space between things, the untranslatable, what it means to travel. These are concerns that mark not only a body of work, but a way of being in the world."
--Laura August, Arts and Culture Texas
"Since entering the art world in the early 1980s Roni Horn has produced an ever expanding cosmos of objects, images, and text that are as paradoxically coherent as they are multifaceted."
--Brooklyn Rail