Log: March 22, 2019 - May 17, 2020 - Roni Horn

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Résumé :
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, LOG continues the artist's exploration of mutability, identity, and perception.
The collection, with its 404 entries, ranges from the humorous and strange to the beautiful and austere. 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 decline, local bird and animal life, and radical changes in weather. It also includes more formal texts and drawings that become leitmotifs threaded throughout the work....

Biographie:
Roni Horn lives and works in New York City. Recent solo exhibitions include: Tate Modern, London, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Kunsthalle Bregenz, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Kunsthalle Basel, Fundaci? Joan Mir?, Barcelona, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.

Sommaire:
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, LOG continues the artist's exploration of mutability, identity, and perception.
The collection, with its 404 entries, ranges from the humorous and strange to the beautiful and austere. 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 decline, local bird and animal life, and radical changes in weather. It also includes more formal texts and drawings that become leitmotifs threaded throughout the work....