Roni Horn: Cabinet of
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Roni Horn: Cabinet of
Steidl Publishers
Steidl Verlag
13th May 2003
Germany
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Photographs: collections
779.2092
Physical Properties
Hardback
80
Width 305mm, Height 356mm
1380g
Description
The modalities of appearance mark Roni Horn's series of 36 head shots of a clown. Originally seen in her Clowd and Cloun installation, a series of alternating images on the two motifs of the cloud and the clown, Horn's stunning photographs of the inevitable clown (he always looks the same) disintegrate the very consistency that makes a clown recognizable as a clown. The clown is a constant, a symbolic form whose identity is rooted in a conventionally defined appearance (red bulbous nose, a shock of bright frizzy hair, white pancake skin, an ear-to-ear grin), one that occludes the specifics of the persona--the player--who temporarily assumes that guise. Cabinet of repeats 36 times the dissolution of the clown's appearance and thus, perhaps, the defining features of the clown itself.
Author Bio
Roni Horn was born in 1955 in New York where she continues to live and work. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975 and an MFA from Yale University in 1978. Her most recent solo shows were presented at Dia Center for the Arts, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Funacao Serralves, Porto.
