BOOKTALKS｜Artists’ Books Series — Roni Horn
Speaker
Tsai Yin-Chin Book Art Researcher/Curator
Location
Winsing Art Place (No. 6, Lane 10, Lane 180, Section 6, Section 6, Minquan East Road, Neihu District, Taipei City)
Fee
$500 (including bookstore entrance fee and a cup of hand-brewed coffee)
Introduction
The talk aims to comprehensively analyze the relationship between American artist Roni Horn's artists' books and their creation, exploring how artists form a series of post-minimalist forms through the material conditions of the books and their generation, to form a series of post-minimalist forms of perceptual engagement: incorporating weather, literature, poetry Within the textual writing and visual scheduling of the booklet, topics such as humans and nature invite the audience/reader into the personal emotions and psychological aspects of the artist's layout through dynamic affability and the linguistic characteristics of the reading.
“I have always felt androgyny as central to my relationship with both myself and the work. As far as an individual's experience with a given work goes, I throw the issue of self-identity back out to the viewer.” - Roni Horn
Mark B. Godfrey, a British art historian who was curator of the Tate Modern Art Museum, noted in Roni Horn's Icelandic Encyclopaedia in 2009 that the To Place series is a collection of books from Ed Ruscha in the 1960s. and the industrial buildings of Bernd & Hilla Becher One of the most important works of the artist's books since publication, it has become a paradigm for contemporary artist bookmaking that continues to have an impact.
We can say that not knowing Horn's artist's book work makes it difficult to get to the heart of her creative concepts, and she once mentioned in an interview: “The To Place series of books are the gateway to all my work and are very important to me.” Published in a total of eleven volumes from 1990 to the present, the series chronicles the artist's long-term interaction with Iceland: exploring issues such as identity, natural ecology, and specific sites through photographs of the region's landscapes, geology, glaciers, water and people.
The lecture will showcase Ronnie Horn's more than thirty years of artist's book series and discuss research on four key themes: the Icelandic Encyclopaedia, the Autobiographical Dictionary, the Imaginative Texts on Water, and Handbook of Portrait Identity), attempts to unravel the metaphorical and symbolic linguistic structures that the artist composed in the book.
