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Hauser & Wirth - Roni Horn Wits End - Hardcover
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Description: Horn's silkscreens of crowdsourced cliches and colloquialisms celebrate the instabilities of the vernacular In the two series of drawings that comprise Wits End Roni Horn (born 1955) takes handwritten idioms cliches and colloquialisms as her source material. Horn asked approximately 300 people to write down five of these vernacular phrases which were then made into individual silkscreens. In Wits End Sampler (2018) shown at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston Texas in 2018 - 19, the idioms are screened in a unique configuration directly on the wall; Wits End Mash (2019) consists of compositions of 75 to 350 idioms silkscreened on paper. These drawings engage the "moments when language fails and connotation migrates " with meaning that "delights in instability and movement " as Michelle White writes in her essay included in this volume. Wits End is the seventh in a series of books by Horn gathering series of works two of which - - bird (2008) and aka (2010) - - were published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
Title: Roni Horn Wits End
Brand: Hauser & Wirth
Barcode: 9783906915654
Pages: 120 Pages, 52 Colour
Publication Date: 11/23/2021
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
Description: Horn's silkscreens of crowdsourced cliches and colloquialisms celebrate the instabilities of the vernacular In the two series of drawings that comprise Wits End Roni Horn (born 1955) takes handwritten idioms cliches and colloquialisms as her source material. Horn asked approximately 300 people to write down five of these vernacular phrases which were then made into individual silkscreens. In Wits End Sampler (2018) shown at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston Texas in 2018 - 19, the idioms are screened in a unique configuration directly on the wall; Wits End Mash (2019) consists of compositions of 75 to 350 idioms silkscreened on paper. These drawings engage the "moments when language fails and connotation migrates " with meaning that "delights in instability and movement " as Michelle White writes in her essay included in this volume. Wits End is the seventh in a series of books by Horn gathering series of works two of which - - bird (2008) and aka (2010) - - were published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
Title: Roni Horn Wits End
Brand: Hauser & Wirth
Barcode: 9783906915654
Pages: 120 Pages, 52 Colour
Publication Date: 11/23/2021
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
