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THE MOST INTANGIBLE THING IS THE MOST ADHESIVE

Roni Horn

2006-2007
Solid aluminum and cast white plastic
229.2 x 5 x 5 cm
Winsing Arts Collection

Roni Horn, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

THE MOST INTANGIBLE THING IS THE MOST ADHESIVE

Roni Horn

2006-2007
Solid aluminum and cast white plastic
229.2 x 5 x 5 cm
Winsing Arts Collection

Literature has long been a centerpiece of Horn's work, and the work of writers such as Emily Dickinson have become the artist's source material. The “White Dickinson” series is a group of rectangular aluminum sculpture with white plastic inscriptions sourced from Emily Dickinson's published letters. The text can only be read clearly when viewed from the front, while the letters are deconstructed into their pure form when viewed from other angles.

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Artist Biography
Roni Horn
Horn's works have been exhibited at an array of institutions, including the Beyeler Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Dia Center for the Arts, the Pompidou Centre, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include ‘Félix González-Torres / Roni Horn’ at the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, ‘Roni Horn: When You See Your Reflection in Water, Do You Recognize the Water in You?’ at the Pola Museum of Art, and ‘Roni Horn — You are the Weather (Books, Drawings, Photographs)’ at the Kunsthaus Göttingen. In 2009, Tate Modern and the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted ‘Roni Horn aka Roni Horn’, a major retrospective, which later traveled to the Collection Lambert in Avignon. Her work has appeared at the Whitney Biennial, Documenta, the Venice Biennale, and the Biennale of Sydney. She was the recipient of the Joan Miró Prize in 2013 and has received awards from the New York Sculpture Center and the National Endowment for the Arts. Horn currently lives and works in New York.
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