Is Infinity an Event?
Roni Horn

"Is Infinity an Event?" includes 12 works from the series ‘An Elusive Red Figure...’ suite of 33 paired ink jet prints first presented in Zurich in 2023. Following on from the 2021 work ‘LOG (March 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020)’, ‘An Elusive Red Figure...’ is a collection of outtakes from ‘LOG’ as well as original drawings, including quotations, collages, photographs, casual commentaries, notes on news and weather events and original texts by Horn. ‘LOG,’ which debuted at Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street in 2021, is a large-scale installation comprised of 406 individual works on paper. The work was the result of a daily commitment to drawing undertaken by Horn over a period of fourteen months. Drawing has been a defining element of Horn’s artistic practice since the 1980s, and ‘An Elusive Red Figure…’ is emblematic of Horn’s relationship with the medium, which she has described as ‘a kind of breathing activity on a daily level.’ Whilst creating the drawings on paper that would become the paired ink jet prints for ‘An Elusive Red Figure…,’ Horn would describe the events of weather, private life and anything notable that came to mind or hand at the time.
Roni Horn (b. 1955, USA) lives and works in New York. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975. In 1978, Horn graduated with a masters in sculpture from Yale University. Her practice focuses on conceptually oriented photography, sculpture, books and drawing. Since 1975, Horn has traveled extensively in the more remote landscapes of Iceland – these solitary experiences have long been important influences in her life and work. Literature and Horn’s prodigious reading have had a similarly profound impact on her work across various media. The sculpture is often paired or doubled, as are the drawings and photographs. Horn’s work is included in institutional collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; the Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Foundation Jumex, Mexico City; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among many others.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Tate Modern, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; De Pont Foundation, Tilburg; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland; Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; The Drawing Institute at The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; the Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan; Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, Paris; Winsing Arts Foundation, Taipei; Centro Botín, Santander; He Art Museum, Guangdong, China; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark.
Artist: Roni Horn