For her first exhibition in London in a decade, Roni Horn will present never before exhibited works on paper from her new Seizure of Hope series, which explores Horn’s preoccupation with repetition and the utilisation of the written word as a medium. Accompanying her drawings is one of her renowned glass sculptures; taking the form of a cube, the work is a rare example of Horn’s cast objects. Evoking water damaged ink, the text is at once legible and blurred. Her cast-glass sculpture Untitled (“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”) (2022) similarly balances solidity and fluidity,...
For her first exhibition in London in a decade, Roni Horn will present never before exhibited works on paper from her new Seizure of Hope series, which explores Horn’s preoccupation with repetition and the utilisation of the written word as a medium. Accompanying her drawings is one of her renowned glass sculptures; taking the form of a cube, the work is a rare example of Horn’s cast objects.
Evoking water damaged ink, the text is at once legible and blurred. Her cast-glass sculpture Untitled (“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”) (2022) similarly balances solidity and fluidity, its glossy top recalling the crystal-clear surface of an undisturbed pool of water. Water is a constant theme for Horn, stating she is ‘…fascinated by this idea of water as a form of perpetual relation, not so much a substance but a thing whose identity was based on its relation to other things…. Rather than an object, water becomes a metaphor for consciousness—of time, of physicality, of the human condition.’
Horn’s exhibition is accompanied by the limited-edition title ‘Seizure of Hope’ by Hauser & Wirth Publishers, an artist’s book that reproduces her drawings in precise detail.
Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953) is one of the most influential and essential artists of the 20th Century. His career and worldview were marked by ceaseless experimentation and his oeuvre demonstrated a rapid progression through various artistic movements, which included impressionism, fauvism, Dadaism and cubism. Seeking to shed light across every area of Picabia’s practice, a wide-ranging exhibition on the artist will be presented at Hauser & Wirth London this spring, organized in collaboration with the Comité Picabia. Covering five decades of his career, this overview of Picabia’s different eras ranges from his early landscapes, Dada works and Transparencies through to his radical nudes, realist works made during World War II and the textured abstract paintings created in his final years.
Highlighting his fluid shift between figurative art and abstraction, the exhibition affirms Picabia’s reputation as one of art history’s most ingenious shape shifters.
