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  Rebecca Horn
Rebecca Horn is de maakster van talrijke installaties, waarin vaak muziekinstrumenten en andere voorwerpen als verlengstuk van een lichaam getoond worden.
In tegenstelling tot Horn formuleert hij een bijzonder mannelijke oplossing, hoewel ook Horn op de mannelijke beleving van seks alludeert: haar “Unicorn” uit 1971 en de vaak in haar werk voorkomende ontvouwen pauwenstaarten liegen er niet om (“Mechanischer Körperfächer”, 1973-1974, “Hängender Fächer”, 1982, “The cellar, the Peacock and the Wooing Love-machine”, 1990).
Ook in Rebecca Horns werk wordt het geheim niet prijsgegeven.
www.kunstbus.nl /verklaringen/rebecca+horn.html   (6409 words)

  
 Sean Kelly Gallery | Exhibition Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Rebecca Horn’s exhibition is comprised of two sculptural installations and a group of new large-scale drawings.
Rebecca Horn and two of the authors, Doris von Drathen and Steven Henry Madoff, will be present to sign copies of the monograph at the opening.
Rebecca Horn, (born in Germany in 1944), is without question one of the seminal artists of our time.
www.skny.com /lasso-bin/exhibition.lasso?-token.ExID=10208   (392 words)

  
 Rebecca Horn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rebecca Horn (24 March 1944, Michelstadt)-) is a German installation artist most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece, and Pencil Mask, a mesh harness for the head with many pencils projecting out.
Horn spent most of her late childhood in boarding schools and at nineteen rebelled against her parents plan of studying economics and decided to instead attend Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts.
Rebecca Horn continued to work more with feathers in the 1970s and 1980s and most of her pieces are like sunglasses.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rebecca_Horn   (1136 words)

  
 Rebecca Horn | postmedia
Walking into the Duveen gallery at the Tate, the long corridor at the center of the building, Rebecca Horn's sculptures and installation work fill the space with anthropomorphized kinetic objects, shaping her aesthetical language, addressing the fragility of the body, the satisfaction of the sexual encounter and defining the essence of life's emotions.
Her constant idea of equating machine with human being probably originates in her performance in 1970 Overflowing Blood Machine, where a naked male had plastic tubes strapped over him and blood, replicating his own circulation system, was pumped through them, reducing him to a part of a mechanism and to becoming a machine himself.
Rebecca Horn's retrospective keeps ours senses on constant guard, like an old boxer she is full of tricks and the intense pleasure and wonder with which I entered the exhibition are still with me.
www.postmedia.net /999/hornrebecca.htm   (725 words)

  
 Berliner Festspiele: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Rebecca Horn
A major Rebecca Horn exhibition is being staged in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in autumn 2006.
Rebecca Horn is a leading protagonist of a development that began on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1960s and demonstrated the absurdity of traditional concepts of art.
Since the late 1970s Rebecca Horn, who was born in the Odenwald region, has produced an oeuvre consisting of a steadily growing stream of performances, films, sculptural space installations, drawings and painted-over photos.
www.berlinerfestspiele.de /en/aktuell/festivals/11_gropiusbau/mgb_04_programm/mgb_04_aktuelle_ausstellungen/mgb_04_ProgrammlisteDetailSeite_1_3014.php   (847 words)

  
 REBECCA HORN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Shown here for the first time in such breadth, this complex of works from Rebecca Horn's oeuvre facilitates an understanding of the intensive and fruitful dialogue between the rich graphic production and the sculptural projects, while foregrounding the originality and authenticity of the works on paper themselves.
In occasione dell'anniversario dello scrittore, Rebecca Horn gli risponde presentando una nuova installazione complessa e sensuale: delle sculture luminose si animano in una stanza immersa nell'oscurita'.
Horn's exhibition is comprised of several large-scale sculptures and a series of new photographic works.
www.undo.net /artinpress/artist/REBECCA_HORN.html   (1236 words)

  
 Irish Museum of Modern Art: Rebecca Horn at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
The show is Horn’s first substantial exhibition in Ireland and forms part of an exciting and varied programme being organised by the Museum to mark its tenth anniversary at the end of May. The exhibition is organised in cooperation with the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Stuttgart.
Rebecca Horn explores Horn’s most frequently recurring themes — sexuality, human vulnerability and emotional fragility — and illustrates the richness and complexity of her work.
Born in 1944, Rebecca Horn has had her work exhibited in many leading museums and galleries in Europe and America.
www.imma.ie /en/page_19284.htm   (624 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Rebecca Horn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She is not one of the newcomers on the international art circuit: if you’ve ever seen her, with her flaming red hair and piercing eyes, you would not forget her or her work, too soon.
Horn works in numerous mediums; her pieces often utilize small motors and pulleys to create subtle animations.
The academic nature of Horn’s work is enhanced by at least a minimal understanding of the "point" of her works — and coming upon them "fresh", one is not necessarily aware of their implications.
www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1166   (381 words)

  
 Irish Museum of Modern Art: Rebecca Horn
This exhibition of approximately 15 works of the renowed German performance artist, sculptor and filmaker, Rebecca Horn is her first substantial exhibition in Ireland.
Horn has also made large site-specific installations in numerous galleries and historical sites, such as those at a prison in Munster, Germany, and at the thermal baths in Bath, England.
Film and video were initially used by Horn soley to document her performances, but were later developed by the artist into a new sphere of her work.
www.imma.ie /en/page_19229.htm   (360 words)

  
 Rebecca Horn
Rebecca Horn was born in Germany in 1944.
Horn's early work was mainly appendages or prosthetics for the human body.
Besides creating this installation in a hotel, Horn has also used a school, a beach and a tower where war prisoners were once tortured as sites for her work.
www.oneroom.org /sculptors/horn.html   (242 words)

  
 Rebecca Horn: Bodylandscapes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The sprawlingly inclusive use of media by artists today marks the work of Rebecca Horn, born in Germany in 1944 but resident in New York, Paris and Berlin, where she also is at home in just about any medium you can name.
Rebecca Horn: Bodylandscapes surveys the diversity of her work and also makes apparent the importance of that old-fashioned first step, drawing, for this thoroughly contemporary artist.
Horn knows a good deal about bodily pain, having early in her career suffered severe lung poisoning from sculpting in fiberglass and polyester without the protection of a mask.
www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch2/Horn.htm   (801 words)

  
 ifa - Contemporary German Art - Exhibition Rebecca Horn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Rebecca Horn is regarded as one of the most versatile and creative artists that Germany has at present.
The high point of her career up to now is marked by the 1994 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum of New York, which was then shown at the New National Gallery in Berlin and the Kunsthalle, or art gallery, of Vienna.
Rebecca Horn has been working with various media simultaneously for some time, not only since 'crossover' has become a fad in the art scene of today: drawing, sculpture, installation, kinetics, photography, performance, action, video, film and text.
www.ifa.de /kunst/horn/eindex.htm   (366 words)

  
 Hayward Gallery | Rebecca Horn: Bodylandscapes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Rebecca Horn is a leading figure in international contemporary art and has created mesmerising works in a variety of media for over three decades.
Bodylandscapes explores Horn’s continual investigation into the human body its emotional trajectories and its physical limitations and shows for the first time the importance of drawing in her practice.
Rebecca Horn’s interest in the body intensified in the late 1960s after long stays in hospitals and sanatoriums following a serious illness.
www.hayward.org.uk /current_exhib_detail.asp?i=51   (282 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Rebecca Horn: Books: Germano Celant,Nancy Spector,Giuliana Bruno,Katharina Schmidt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A performance artist, filmmaker, sculptor and poet, Horn explores the themes of human vulnerability and emotional fragility in her disquieting, often beguiling happenings, movies, anthropomorphized machines and fetishistic objects.
Horn's film, La Ferdinanda, set in a Medici villa owned by nouveau-riche industrialists, is a study of counterfeit existences.
The illustrations provide a sense of Horn's work, although there is a lack of clarity in many, and, on the whole, the quality of the reproductions is not as good as one might have expected.
www.amazon.com /Rebecca-Horn-Germano-Celant/dp/0810968703   (692 words)

  
 Rebecca Horn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Rebecca Horn 1034346519 1034373600 New York USA Amy Gotzler http://www.skny.com amy@skny.com 1034346519.jpg 1036882799 o Sean Kelly Gallery Rebecca Horn Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce a major exhibition of new works by Rebecca Horn.
The employment of such wide ranging interests as science and alchemy, the rational and the intuitive, the mechanical and the sensual has occurred repeatedly in her work over the last three decades and resulted in one of the most distinct and individual oeuvres in the art world.
Horn has participated in the Venice Biennale, the Biennale of Sydney, and is one of very few artists whom have been selected to participate in Documenta on four separate occasions.
www.undo.net /artinpress/1034373600.1034346519.html   (360 words)

  
 Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Horn - Biography
Rebecca Horn was born March 24, 1944, in Michelstadt, Germany.
Studying at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg from 1964 to 1970, Horn was inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka and Jean Genet and the films of Luis Buñuel and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
The most profound influence on Horn’s development as an artist, however, was a lung condition contracted in 1968 that forced her to stop using certain sculptural materials.
www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_66.html   (406 words)

  
 Haber's Art Reviews: Rebecca Horn, Roni Horn, and Marina Abramovic
Rebecca Horn pairs a ghostly new installation with early videos of herself that seem always to know what to hide, while Roni Horn disappears entirely, although one would hardly know it from her photographs of an actual film star.
The numbered doors and confined quarters almost suggest both as a prison, and it is a tribute to Horn, her namesake, and Abramovic that surely all three could see it from the outside.
Rebecca Horn ran at Sean Kelly through December 3, 2005, Marina Abramovic's "Balkan Erotic Epic" at Sean Kelly through January 21, 2006, Roni Horn at Matthew Marks, through December 24, 2005, and "Woman of Many Faces: Isabelle Huppert" at P.S. through December 5, 2005.
www.haberarts.com /horn.htm   (2260 words)

  
 MY FAMILY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
WOODSON G. HORN I He was born May 16, 1854 in Estill County, Ky. He died May 15, 1933 in Estill County, Ky. He married MARY ELIZABETH MOORE on Dec. 1, 1877 in Estill County, Ky. She was a daughter of MALINDA LEITHA HORN and JOHN JACK MOORE.
REBECCA JANE HORN She was born Aug. 22, 1856 in Estill County, Ky. she married JOHN P. He was a son of HARDIN INGRAM and DEBORAH ALCORN.
REBECCA HORN III She was born Apr. 26, 1864 in Estill County, Ky. She died Apr. 7, 1937 in Estill County, Ky. She married JOHN JACKSON "DICK" HORN on Dec. 29, 1881 in Estill County, Ky. He was a son of SIMPSON MERLE HORN I and LOUISA JANE ALCORN.
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 Goethe-Institut German Art : Current Exhibitions in London - Archive - Rebecca Horn
Rebecca Horn: Bodylandscapes : drawings, sculptures, installations 1964 - 2004 ; (published on the occasion of the exhibition...
Since the Sixties Rebecca Horn produced drawings, which either served as preparation for her sculptures, were produced together with the sculptures, or had a completely free character.
Rebecca Horn: The glance of infinity ; (Exhibition Kestner Gesellschaft 12 May - 27 July 1997) / with contributions by Carsten Ahrens...
www.goethe.de /ins/gb/lon/prj/kun/kue/ku4/ar15/enindex.htm   (464 words)

  
 Rebecca Horn & Hayden Chisholm: Music for Rebecca Horn's Installations
In 2004 Rebecca Horn created Light Imprisoned in the Belly of the Whale, a work that incorporated passages of poetry as a sculptural element within a room-filling installation of words and sentences projected onto a fl, reflective sheet of water.
Horn’s collaborator on the project was the New Zealand-based composer Hayden Chisholm, who infused the pictorial space with sound, lending an acoustic dimension to the poetic narrative.
Music for Rebecca Horn’s Installations gives those who witnessed Horn and Chisholm’s collaborations an opportunity to re-live their visual and acoustic experience.
www.artbook.com /393556726x.html   (247 words)

  
 Artdaily.com - The First Art Newspaper on the Net
This is the first exhibition to demonstrate the pivotal role of drawing in her practice, from the early schematic drawings for performances to the recent large-scale gestural abstractions.
Horn focuses on the body - its relationship with nature and the machine, its sensory awareness, frailty and desire - tapping into the world of metaphor, legend and alchemy.
Horn’s keen awareness of form, her powers of spatial imagination and poetic expressiveness come to the fore in the kinetic sculptures she has created over the past two decades.
www.artdaily.com /section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=14513   (586 words)

  
 Tate Modern | Past Exhibitions | Between Cinema and a Hard Place
When she was a student, Rebecca Horn became seriously ill through inhaling the fibreglass she was using for her sculptures.
Horn has described them as being like birds confronted by their own image, aggressively pecking at themselves before suddenly taking fright.
To preserve that sense of encounter, the artist has introduced two funnels of mercury to represent the patients, quivering in response both to the striking hammers and the vibrations of our footsteps.
www.tate.org.uk /modern/exhibitions/cinema/horn.htm   (290 words)

  
 REBECCA HORN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A series of film interviews with Rebecca Horn (born in Gremany in 1944), a performance artist, filmmaker and sculptress whose works explore the themes of sexuality, human vulnerability and emotional fragility.
For director and art critic Heinz Peter Schwerfel, the art of Rebecca Horn "is energy in its purest state, the energy of eroricism, positive and negative, masculine and feminine.
It is only the voyage that counts, the endless adventures of the artist who takes us with her for a few brief moments on her voyage towards death." A poetic world, brittle humour and a tragic destiny are the components of Rebecca Horn's complex and multiform oeuvre, a reflection of our present era.
www.artfilm.sk /history/info95/rebecca.html   (204 words)

  
 Rebecca Horn « Autonomous Mutations
Located in the nexus between body and machine, Rebecca Horn’s work transmogrifies the ordinary into the enigmatic.
In a career that has spanned more than 30 years and traversed varied stylistic ground—from Performance [more] to sculptural installations and feature-length films—Horn has continually returned to the body, the source of her beginnings as an artist.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 at 4:19 am and is filed under Artists, women robotic artists.
marynowsky.wordpress.com /2006/05/24/rebecca-horn   (164 words)

  
 Rebecca Horn: Light Imprisoned in the Belly of the Whale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Rebecca Horn: Light Imprisoned in the Belly of the Whale
In 1997 French poet and mathematician Jacques Roubaud wrote 53 poems for Rebecca Horn.
Inspired by this poetry, the German artist created sculptures of light in which words wander through dark spaces, weave through murkiness and form an intertwined network, a firmament of text.
www.artbook.com /3775791361.html   (196 words)

  
 Rebecca Horn - Resultados de la búsqueda - MSN Encarta
Rebecca Horn - Resultados de la búsqueda - MSN Encarta
Rebecca Horn (1944- ), escultora y realizadora de cine alemana, célebre exponente del Body Art y de las performances, muchas de las cuales se han...
Rebecca West, seudónimo de Cicily Isabel Fairfield Andrews (1892-1983), novelista, crítica y periodista británica.
es.encarta.msn.com /Rebecca_Horn.html   (91 words)

  
 Rebecca Horn ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Ceramic Horn, 19th century Unknown MakerFranceGlazed pottery; L. perpendicular to bell 17 in.
Forester"s horn England, 19th century Oxhorn Overall Length: 40 cm (15 3/4 in.) Museum of
For Roni Horn's focus exhibition, the artist will present an installation of photo-lithographs from the series Still Water (1999-present), an on-going, poetic study of the Thames River that was inspired by the artist's interest in the visual and l...
wwar.com /masters/h/horn-rebecca.html   (1774 words)

  
 REBECCA (in MARION)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Rebecca and Rowena : a romance upon romance.
Rebecca Horn : light imprisoned in the belly of the whale = lumiere en prison dans le ventre de la baleine.
Rebecca ; Jamaica Inn ; Frenchman's creek ; My cousin Rachel.
www-catalog.cpl.org /MARION?T=REBECCA   (84 words)

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