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Roni Horn
Portrait of an Image, 2004-5 (c) The artist and Hauser & Wirth
The Common Guild, Glasgow
17 June 2009, 6.30-7.30pm
Spin: Glasgow’s first visit to The Common Guild to see work by Roni Horn.
Roni Horn’s work sets up relationships: between images, between words and between object and viewer. This new exhibition, following Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, her major show currently at Tate Modern, brings together a concise group of works that share Horn’s characteristic evocation of the fine line between sameness and difference. Specifically selected with the artist, in response to the particular characteristics of The Common Guild’s grand but domestic gallery spaces, the exhibition also demonstrates the range of forms in which Horn works – photographic installations, drawing, sculpture and books. Its title comes from the work of legendary Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1920 – 1977), via a work included in the exhibition, and is suggestive of the many instances of reflection to be found in this coming together of art and place.
The Common Guild is a not-for-profit visual arts organisation, receiving Flexible Funding from the Scottish Arts Council is dedicated to producing a dynamic international programme of contemporary visual art projects, exhibitions, and events. These include gallery-based exhibitions and ephemeral, non-gallery projects, interventions and collaborations. The Common Guild’s temporary home at 21 Woodlands Terrace is a grand, Victorian townhouse to the west of the city centre next to Kelvingrove Park. Exhibitions take place over two floors, including a unique library, designed by artist Andrew Miller, which will include a selection of Roni Horn’s extensive output of artist’s books and catalogues.
Roni Horn lives and works in New York, where she was born in 1955. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University. She has exhibited in major solo exhibitions in Europe and America including at significant institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Dia Center for the Arts, New York and most recently at Tate Modern, Collection Lambert, Avignon, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. The numerous important group exhibitions in which she has participated include the Whitney Biennial exhibitions of 1991 and 2004, Documenta IX in 1992 and the 1997 Venice Biennale. She has worked on artist’s books throughout her career, including the multi-volume To Place.