Roni Horn - When I Breathe, I Draw

Describing drawing as her "primary activity," for over thirty years Roni Horn (b. 1955) has created innovative and experimental works on paper marked by both conceptual and technical complexity. This carefully curated survey of the artist's drawings from the early 1980s through 2016 explores works revolving around the mutability of identity and the fragility of place, time, and language; it also delves into Horn's unique approach to mark-making and her process of cutting up and reassembling words and images. With sumptuous illustrations, this catalogue features an insightful look at and selected details of Horn's large-scale--sometimes over ten feet tall--works on paper; the artist's series of cadmium red drawings; and her cut-and-pasted word drawings that combine well-known literary texts by Gertrude Stein and William Shakespeare with colloquial expressions.
>Distributed for The Menil Collection

Exhibition Schedule:
The Menil Collection, Houston
(02/15/19-09/01/19)

About the author

Michelle White is senior curator at The Menil Collection, Houston.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle White, White Michelle
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780300233155
• ISBN: 978-0-300-23315-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 246 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Menil Drawing Institute Series; Menil Drawing Institute
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / Techniques / Drawing, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, History of Art, Art techniques & principles, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Drawing & drawings, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Individual artists, art monographs, The Arts: techniques and principles, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Drawing and drawings