Rebecca Horn

Doris von Drathen

Essays by Doris von Drahten, Boris Groys, Rebecca Horn, Bernd Kauffmann, and Martin Mosebach. In 1999, acclaimed German multimedia artist Rebecca Horn created "Concert for Buchenwald", a large-scale, two-part installation in Weimar, Germany commemorating the horrors of genocide and emigration. This darkly intense work evokes both the shoah and the mass murders in former Yugoslavia. The first part of the installation is set in an abandoned train depot. Its walls are lined with glass panes behind whose shiny surfaces you can make out layer upon layer of ashes. Running alongside one of the wells, railroad tracks are blocked up by densely entangled heaps of various stringed instruments, reminiscent of the piles of corpses that were discovered in Buchenwald. The second part is installed in Schloss Ettersburg, an 18th century palatial residence. Here, the humming sound of panicked bees is audible from hives suspended from the ceiling of an opulent ballroom suggesting memories of expulsion and escape. The book's essays explore various aspects and interpretations of Horn's installation; the artist's own notes trace the origins of the installation's prominent metaphors.

Concert for Buchenwald : Part 1, Tram Depot : Part 2, Schloss Ettersburg

The Colonies of Bees Undermining the Moles' Subversive Effort Through Time

Armin Zweite

Dr. Katharina Schmidt

Berliner Festspiele

"This book is the first publication devoted to a previously largely overlooked group of works by the internationally acclaimed artist Rebecca Horn - her rich and diverse graphic oeuvre. The drawings completed by Rebecca Horn since the sixties include preliminary studies for sculptures, works produced in conjunction with her sculptures and installations, and entirely autonomous pieces. Many of these diagrams, scores, technical designs, and evidently spontaneous drawings are enriched with collaged objects, printed words, and lines of poetry."--BOOK JACKET.

Drawings, Sculptures, Installations, Films 1964-2006

A box set collection of eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatizations of Raymond Chandler's classic novels featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe, including The Big Sleep, The Lady in the Lake, Farewell my Lovely, Playback, The Long Goodbye, The High Window, The Little Sister, and Poodle Springs. The series stars Toby Stephens and features a full cast, plus sound effects and specially-composed music.

Manuela Filiaci

For Doris von Drathen, aesthetic categories are inadequate for engaging the freedom of contemporary art. This internationally esteemed art historian and critic uses an unconventional approach to break the strictures of existing systems and ask a simple question : if art represents one of our most precious means of seeing and understanding the world, then why do we accept formal and normative commentaries that abolish what is quintessential - the image itself and its emotional impact? In her monographic essays, Doris von Drathen has developed a new methodology that embraces the gaze of the beholder, examining an individual artist's practice as an intrinsic universe and respecting the art object as an entity of otherness.

Proposition for an Art Criticism Beyond Aesthetic Categories

Vortex of Silence

Iso Camartin

Angela Vettese

"The first book that shows the inner truth of the fata morgana works: they are nothing less than the light of consciousness that for one instance magnifies a tiny aspect of our life." --Book Jacket.

Ausstellung u.d.T.: Rebecca Horn : Fata Morgana, Liebesflucht

Feb-June 2001, the silence within

Pedro Cabrita Reis

German-born artist Rebecca Horn has, since the early 1970s, been engaged in a diverse and prolific practice. Her process-oriented performances, films, sculptures, installations, drawings and photographs are, literally or metaphorically, extensions of the body--and often serve as mechanical replacements for it. Referencing mythical, historical, literary and spiritual imagery, Horn invokes these bodily concerns with such objects as violins, ladders, pianos, feather fans, metronomes and drawing machines. She is best known for works like "Pencil Mask" (1972), which looks like an instrument of torture, but which actually transforms the wearer's head into an instrument for drawing; and "Unicorn" (1970), a performance in which the artist transforms herself, by means of a prosthetic horn, into an awkward version of the mythical creature. This exceptionally printed volume contains a concentrated collection of Horn's drawings and includes an essay by German art historian Doris von Drathen.

Cosmic Maps

Rui Chafes

Lisbon-born Rui Chafes represented Portugal in the 1995 Venice Biennale with his large-scale yet airy abstract steel sculptures that fool the eye by appearing to hover or float. For the first time, in this monograph, Chafes' sculptures and drawings are contextualized with his own writings, and within an historical lineage that includes Brancusi and Giacometti.

Doris von Drathen

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