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Log: March 22, 2019 - May 17, 2020

Roni Horn

LOG (March 22, 2019-May 17, 2020), produced daily over a period of fourteen months, is a collection of drawings, quotations, collages, photographs, casual commentaries, notes on news and weather events, and original texts by Roni Horn. Known for conceptually oriented work in diverse media, Horn continues her exploration of identity and difference in LOG.

The collection, with its 406 drawings, ranges from the humorous and strange to the sublime and disturbed. Lodged in this context is the complexity of daily, lived experience.

The dates LOG records encompass the mundane scroll of life, the global pandemic's early days, a political system in breakdown, local bird and animal life, and radical changes in weather. It also includes more formal texts and drawings, some becoming leitmotifs threaded throughout the work.

LOG transforms personal experience into an emotionally profound and unusual visual engagement. First exhibited in New York City in early 2021, this is a beguiling and immersive body of work that invites repeated viewing.

Book Details

  • Publisher: ZE Books
  • Publish Date: Jul 26th, 2022
  • Pages: 432
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 12.20in - 9.90in - 1.80in - 5.20lb
  • EAN: 9781733540162
  • Categories: Individual Artists - Artists' BooksIndividual Artists - EssaysWomen Artists

About the Author

Horn, Roni: - Roni Horn was born in New York in 1955, and lives and works in New York. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University. Horn explores the mutable nature of art through sculptures, works on paper, photography, and books. She describes drawing as the key activity in all her work, "because drawing is about composing relationships." Horn's drawings concentrate on the materiality of the objects depicted. She also uses words as the basis for drawings and other works. Horn crafts complex relationships between the viewer and her work by installing a single piece on opposing walls, in adjoining rooms, or throughout a series of buildings. She subverts the notion of "identical experience," insisting that one's sense of self is marked by a place in the "here-and-there" and by time in the "now-and-then." She describes her artworks as "site-dependent," expanding upon the idea of site-specificity associated with minimalism.