Description: Moon Mirror focuses on a singular aspect of Rebecca Horn's extraordinarily diverse oeuvre, one that plays an important role in the formal constitution of her large sculptures and installations: the relationship between the work of art and its architectural setting. Presented here is a range of pieces, from early works of the 1970s to sculptures and installations realized in 2003. In Mekasten and R ume berhren sich in Spiegeln, both made in the 70s, the human body is the measure of spatial perception. In the late-80s installation Das gegenl ufige Konzert, Horn worked site-specifically within a building of dubious political background--the Zwinger, where countless people were tortured during the Nazi regime--exploring its history and creating a place of remembrance. In the recent Moon Mirror, a work installed in Pollen a, Majorca, the artist created a column of air between a fountain constructed of mirrors and an eddy of light beneath the dome of the Stiftskirche. At the point at which the Orient and the Occident meet, the moon is captured as a "vehicle of human vision and expression." The viewer descends into the depths of the fountain and transcends her own horizon in order to survey the heavens anew.

Rebecca Horn: Moon Mirror

Arts & Photography

Doris Von Drathen

Steven Henry Madoff

Marion Ackermann

Individual Artists

Hatje Cantz Publishers

Pedro Cabrita Reis, A remote whisper

History & Criticism

Ivory Press

<p>German art historian and critic Doris von Drathen has here produced a collection of 24 texts on 24 of the world's famous contemporary artists. In it, she proposes nothing less than a new method of art criticism: an anti-criticism that goes above and beyond aesthetic categories, and against the colonization of art. Paradoxically, the more famous an artist, the more their works seem obscured by inflexible classifications, wild misreading and deceptive labels; von Drathen's analysis instead shows that every one of these artists is driven by an existential and ethical research. Artists from whom von Drathen raises this vortex of silence include: Marina Abramovic, Jean-Pierre Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Ann Hamilton, Rebecca Horn, Anish Kapoor, Agnes Martin, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone and David Tremlett.</p>

Vortex Of Silence: Art Criticism Beyond Aesthetic Categories

Charta

This volume traces Gwenn Thomas' ongoing exploration into the possibilities of exposing light-sensitive surfaces, and the ever-changing role of photographic reproduction and how it shapes our contemporary perception of painting. "Picture Mondrian and Maholy-Nagy playing checkers at the intersection between image and abstraction," writes David Levi Strauss.

Gwenn Thomas

David Levi Strauss

Lilly Wei

Edward Leffingwell

Saul Ostrow

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Books by Doris Von Drathen