Rebecca Horn "Cosmic Maps" Exhibition
Sean Kelly Gallery
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Rebecca Horn's exhibition will be comprised of both new large-scale paintings on paper and a group of signature sculptures. These important new paintings, the scale of which are determined by the extent of the artist's physical reach, evoke personal, metaphorical, and metaphysical influences orchestrated through dynamic gesture. The new paintings on paper clearly relate to Horn's seminal early performance pieces in which she sculpturally extended the body into space. In an accompanying catalog essay Doris von Drathen explains: "Against this backdrop, the paintings on paper assembled here under the title Cosmic Maps are more that just 'recent works.' As a group, these paintings from the last few years plot oscillations, for the first time opening out a pictorial space that hazards to sever all connection to topographical space …."
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from May 03, 2008 to June 14, 2008