Roni Horn #2

Roni Horn in her Manhattan studio, 2004. (bron: art21)


Roni Horn’s studio, Austerlitz, upstate New York, 2018.

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Horn designed the country studio herself, primarily as a space to create drawings and photographic works (her large-scale sculptural works are produced by outside fabricators). And like her work, the studio is shaped by the environment in which it was created.
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The airy ceilings and polished concrete floors emphasise the industrial feel of the space, though it mostly recedes into the environment. On one side, a shelving unit is lined with bright pigments from Germany, Iran, and even Iceland – strikingly beautiful, but also strikingly toxic, Horn tells me. ‘The pigments are all heavy metals. Beauty and toxicity are very simple and strange; there is a correlation that I haven’t figured out.’ (That tension between violence and serenity, or brutality and beauty, is a continuous theme in Horn’s work.) The studio also houses tools such as epicly sized straight-edges and rulers; a long drawing table facing the lakeside wall of windows, piled with books, paper, and pencils; and a sound system to listen to music (Horn mentions Kanye West, George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Kurt Weill) and podcasts while working.
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(bron: Wallpaper*, foto: Geordie Wood)