 Roni Horn Pi Roni Horn's photo installations, which since the early 1990s have constituted an independent component of the work of the American artist based in New York, bear witness to the fundamental significance of Iceland in the artist's thinking and experience. Since her first visit to the island in 1975, Iceland has represented a correlate to her urbane New York home in the context of her artistic output. The gallery will host the 1998 photo installation Pi, which comprises 45 photographs from Arctic Circles (1998), the most recent volume of To Place, an encyclopedic work of the artist, presenting the visual dÈnouement of the exploration of a particular aspect of the Icelandic environment. Images of landscapes, ocean views, seabirds, (empty) birds' nests, stuffed animals, people and their living spaces evoke a topography of day-to-day phenomena in an even flow. The complex special relations, and interplay of individual sequences put together to create a whole, open up space for the observer's own memories and mental associations and can be read as manifest metaphors of universal life situations. As always with Roni Horn, however, the key lies in the complexity and equality of the excerpts of life she shows. In her work, reality does not appear as a conclusive entity, but rather as an infinite complex of perceptual variations which, focused on specific objects, has to remain fragmented, denoting an individual selection. Ausstellungsdauer: 11.6. - 28.7.2001 Oeffnungszeiten: Di-Fr 12-18 Uhr, Sa 11-16 Uhr Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber Limmatstrasse 270 8005 Zürich Telefon: +41 1 446 80 60 Fax: +41 1 446 80 65 E-Mail: info@ghwp.ch www.ghwp.ch |
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