Roni Horn

Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the colour of the metal is slightly darker in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals some unobtrusive media accretions in isolated places. Further close inspection reveals some light wear to the upper and lower edges, and some small scratches and rub marks in places. There are some further small irregularities in places to the black, that appear to be in keeping with the artist's choice of materials.
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“Since the late 1980s, Horn has made a series of sculptures in which lines from Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters appear (...) The poet’s sensitivity to visible and invisible events and things resonates with the artist’s similarly sharp attention to the world around her. Horn admires the way that Dickinson’s texts ‘scraped the symbolic’ out of language, causing poetry ‘to function in a non-abstract, non-figurative manner’. In her sculptures, Horn gives Dickinson’s words solid form, complementing the poet’s language with the physical presence of the object.”

RONI HORN

aka Roni Horn, Tate Modern, 2009, online