Untitled (Aretha), 2002–04, solid cast glass, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, fractional and promised gift of Kathy and Richard S. Fuld Jr. Pic © Roni Horn
Exhibition Preview: Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, Tate Modern (Level 4), February 25 – May 25 2009
As you might expect from one of the most inventive exponents of minimalism during the past 30 years, Roni Horn’s major concern lies in how her audience views and perceives her work.
Opposite of White, v. 1, 2006, solid cast glass, height. Pic © Roni Horn, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, London
The American artist is best known for her love of Iceland – she’s spent vast amounts of her time there since graduating in the 1970s, so devoted to the ecology of the country that she created a library made with pillars of glacial water – and she enjoys giving different light to essentially similar pairs of work, as Dead Owl illustrates here.
Dead Owl, 1997, 2 Iris-printed photographs on Somerset-Paper. Pic © Roni Horn
Still Water (The River Thames, for Example) is an installation of snaps of the river’s surface, exploring its history and our relationship with water, and glass sculptures change appearance according to how light falls on them.
Ant Farm, 1974–75 (silent performance at studio, Providence, Rhode Island). Oak, glass, earth, and ants. Pic © Roni Horn, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, London
You Are The Weather presents 100 close-up photographs of a woman immersed in an Icelandic hot pool, charting her features as they respond to the season, with viewers asked to imagine they are that weather.
There are also trademark beautiful scenery from the Arctic Circle starring animals, geology and human circles of life and recent drawings which have rarely been shown in the UK.
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