“Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake” is the artist’s first monographic exhibition in Barcelona.
Roni Horn
"Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake" is the poetic title the artist Roni Horn choosed for her first monographic exhibition in Barcelona.
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- 23 June 2014
- Barcelona
Through her work, Horn questions the world around her, her own identity, and her relationship with the environment. The works in the show include her latest sculptural installation, which has only been shown once before at Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York. The exhibition explores a range of approaches and media that the artist has used over the past twenty years, including sculptural installations, photographic series, working drawings and a large floor piece.
The show has been conceived by the artist herself, and explores the different media and approaches that she has used over the past twenty years. It covers the major themes and formats that make up her work: sculptural installations, photographic series, working drawings, and a floor piece entitled Rings of Lispector (Água Viva) that combines drawing and literary quotes. The title of the exhibition Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake is taken from Fernando Pessoa’s Livro do desassossego, published in 1935.
The exhibition is intended to offer an overall experience, like a huge installation comprised of all the pieces on display. The selection of works, which Roni Horn made with the Fundació Joan Miró and CaixaForum Madrid spaces specifically in mind, is a compendium of the elements that underpin the artist’s creative process: people, the landscape, light, words, water, presence, glass, faces, change, forms, series, spaces, the appearance of the self, and time.
Until 28 September 2014
Roni Horn. Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona