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On this day in
1830 Albert Bierstadt, American painter of grandiose scenes of the American West, was born.
1899 Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc Paris, composer and pianist, was born
1986 died Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist, short story writer, and photographer
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Exhibition in Salzburg: Rebecca Horn
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| Friday, August 29, 2008 |
The MdM Rupertinum presents a representative selection of Rebecca Horn’s oeuvre in conjunction with the artist’s engagement as stage and costume designer for the production of Salvatore Sciarrino’s opera “Luci mie traditrici” at the Kollegienkirche for this year’s Salzburg Festival.
Large-size body paintings, also called "body landscapes" by the artist, and emotionally charged sculptural objects created during the past few years, complemented by a selection of large-size drawings and early films, give visitors insight into Rebecca Horn’s comprehensive artistic work. Many of the objects and drawings featured in the exhibition are
shown at the MdM Rupertinum for the very first time.
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Rebecca Horn, Binoculares Ping Pong, 2008, 2 Ferngläser, Ping Pong-Bälle, Stahl, Elektronik, Motor, 160 x 40 x 35 cm, © Rebecca Horn, © VBK, Wien, 2008, Foto: Heinz Hefele, |
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In most of the works created by Rebecca Horn since the 1970s, be it early performances and films, sculptures, room installations, drawings or overpainted photographs, the German artist deals intensively with space, the human body and its translation into kinetic objects, trying to fathom the boundaries of space and time. The main elements her boxes and moving sculptures are made of are found objects and mechanical appliances, often in combination with pictorial interferences. They seemingly become disassociated from their original function and materiality and are transposed by Rebecca Horn into an immaterial imagery of continuous transformation.
Her works are frequently based on mythical images and cultural, literary, spiritual or political allusions. In addition to her moving sculptures, the artist has also created an impressive number of drawings, which seem to contrast her sculptural oeuvre at first glance. The drawings are an expression of the artist’s intensive investigation into the human body in general and her own body in particular, into eroticism and identity, which are depicted in a very expressive and lyrical way in the sense of an “abstract symbolism” (Donald Kuspit). Rebecca Horn’s drawings in particular reflect the tensions in the relationship between conceptual and performative aspects in the artist’s work.
Rebecca Horn, Knuggle Dome for James Joyce, 2004, Messer, Metallkonstruktion, Motor, 60 x 110 x 40 cm, Privatbesitz, © Rebecca Horn VBK, Wien, 2008, Foto: Gunter Lepkowski |
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Rebecca Horn, who was born in 1944, has won numerous awards; she was also the first woman to receive the Goslar Emperor’s Ring in 1992. Since 1984 she has been represented in numerous international exhibitions. Her major individual exhibitions include a retrospective shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1994 and in adapted form at the Vienna Kunsthalle in 1995, “Bodylandscapes. Drawings, Sculptures, Installations 1964 – 2004” at the K20 Art Collection of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf, Germany and the latest exhibition “Jupiter im Oktogon” organised at the Museum Wiesbaden on the occasion of the award of the Alexej von Jawlensky Prize by the city of Wiesbaden.
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