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PROVENANCE
The artist
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Unlimited, Art Basel 2022, Basel, Switzerland: 13 June to 20 June 2022
Bee’s Planetary Map, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany: 28 April to 26 June 2021
Rebecca Horn: Théâtre des métamorphoses, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France: 8 June 2019 to 13 January 2020
Concert for Buchenwald, Schloss Ettersburg, Ettersburg, Germany: 15 May to 15 October 1999
Rebecca Horn, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA: 5 May to 13 June 1998
ILLUSTRATION HISTORY
Ackermann, Marion, Holzwarth, Hans Werner and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Rebecca Horn - Moon Mirror. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005. pp 144-146 (color).
Horn, Rebecca and Sartorius, Joachim. The Vertebrae Oracle. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014. p 114 (b&w).
Horn, Rebecca and von Drathen, Doris. Rebecca Horn. Paris: Galerie Lelong, 2014. p 20 (color).
Horn, Rebecca, Hasegawa, Yuko, von Drathen, Doris and Edelsztein, Sergio. Rebecca Horn. Kyōto: Tankōsha Publishing Co. and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2009. p 125 (color).
Horn, Rebecca, von Drathen, Doris, Groys, Boris and Mosebach, Martin. Concert for Buchenwald. Zurich: Scalo Verlag, 2000. pp 27-28 (color).
Lavigne, Emma and Müller, Alexandra. Rebecca Horn : Théâtre des métamorphoses. Metz: Centre Pompidou - Metz, 2019. pp 112-113 (color).
Museum Tinguely ed., Reimann, Sandra Beate. Rebecca Horn - Body Fantasies. Vienna: VfmK für moderne Kunst GmbH, 2019. p.143 (color).
Von Drathen, Doris. Künstler: Rebecca Horn (II). Issue 8. Munich: ZEIT Kunstverlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2011. (color). -
REBECCA HORN
THE COLONIES OF BEES UNDERMINING THE MOLE'S SUBVERSIVE EFFORT THROUGH TIME
NOTEBOOK, 27 SEPTEMBER 1997 - 15 MAY 1999
(EXCERPT)
...Span an arch from Schloss Ettersburg over Buchenwald.The bees have lost their centrethey swarm in dense clouds high abovetheir radiant beehives are deserted.Wandering islands of light seek the lost onescasting an axis of escapeto catch them up in fleeing motionshaping a planetary map of light anew.The beehives, the wandering light of coloniesthe attempt to flee destructionat the mercy of alchemistic processes:mirror of water, heated by cayenne pepper, turns to bloodevaporates over fire into glowing light.Light alters the island poles of the bee swarmsone of the colonies will always be destroyedeternally wandering and searching,writing signs in dark waterthe wind inscribes in sand,changing the signs.Labyrinths of moleswith their ramified streams of energy they resemblethe flight paths of the bees.They meet in human beingsas a catalystconnecting the above and below of the mind.Through the process of transformationcautiously writing the language of new signs.Samson killed a young roaring lion.Inside its body he found a swarm of bees and honey.Releasing the bees, he bore the honey in his hands,eating and walking, he betrayed his secret to no one -
“In all her work, Rebecca Horn consistently acknowledges the primacy of experience over symbolism, her goal being to articulate and demonstrate that art must be grasped not only in relation to its historical and formal structures but also from the viewpoint of the subject. Operating through signs and symbols, the circular interdependence between the self and the world is consistently revealed.”
— Germano Celant, The Divine Comedy of Rebecca Horn, Rebecca Horn: The Inferno Paradiso Switch (Catalogue), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1993. -