Rebecca Horn - Bodylandscapes: Drawings

Thursday, 04 August 2005 11:01

LONDON, ENGLAND.-The Hayward gallery presents Rebecca Horn - Bodylandscapes: Drawings, sculptures, installations 1964-2004. One of the most respected figures in contemporary art, Rebecca Horn (b. 1944) - sculptor, painter, poet and filmmaker - has shown widely across the globe. 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. Bodylandscapes brings together work across all media, from the start of Horn’s career in the late 1960s through to the present day, including two spectacular new light and sound installations. Placing an emphasis on the diversity of Horn’s work, Bodylandscapes highlights the interplay between drawings and sculpture throughout her career. With almost 80 works on paper and some 25 key sculptures and installations, the exhibition explores how Horn’s experiences of the body have continued to shape her work. 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. Works such as The Raven’s Twin (1997), Book of Ashes (2002) and Knuggle Dome for James Joyce (2004) are both beautiful and disturbing, drawing shocking effects from commonplace objects that are charged with emotion. In two of her most recent installations, Light imprisoned in the belly of the whale (2002-2005) and Cinema Verité (2005).

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