Book Description
In this collaboration with four preeminent artists and writers, Roni Horn presents her latest work: Wonderwater (Alice Offshore). The publication takes the form of four individual books contained in a slipcase, plus an envelope of Horn's drawings. Each volume comprises a text written in response to the same selection of Horn's titles/phrases: 19th C. Water; Cabinet Of; Dead Owl; Gurgles, Sucks, Echoes; Her, Her, Her and Her; Untitled (Yes); Water, Still; You are the Weather.The respondents are sculptor Louise Bourgeois, poet/writer Anne Carson, philosopher/writer Hélène Cixous, and film director/artist John Waters. Individually, these booklets embody the voice of each writer. Together they become the content of Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)--further extending the landscape of Roni Horn’s art. Essays by Louise Bourgeois, John Waters, Anne Carson, and Hélène Cixous. Slipcased, 7.75 x 5.5 in. / 652 pgs
Wonderwater: Alice Offshore FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this collaboration with four preeminent artists and writers, Roni Horn presents her latest work: Wonderwater (Alice Offshore). The publication takes the form of four individual books contained in a slipcase, plus an envelope of Horn's drawings. Each volume comprises a text written in response to the same selection of Horn's titles/phrases: 19th C. Water; Cabinet Of; Dead Owl; Gurgles, Sucks, Echoes; Her, Her, Her and Her; Untitled (Yes); Water, Still; You are the Weather. The respondents are sculptor Louise Bourgeois, poet/writer Anne Carson, philosopher/writer Hélène Cixous, and film director/artist John Waters. Individually, these booklets embody the voice of each writer. Together they become the content of Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)—further extending the landscape of Roni Horn's art.
ACCREDITATION
Roni Horn was born in 1955 in New York, where she continues to live and work. Since earning her MFA from Yale in 1978, she has shown her sculptures, installations, and photographs extensively throughout the world. Her most recent solo exhibitions were presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Funacao Serralves in Portugal, Fotomuseum Winterthur, and Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her recent publications include Dictionary of Water, This is Me, This is You, Cabinet of... and If on a Winter's Night....
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