Installationsansicht / Installation view
Foto / Photo: Timo Ohler
MOIRÉ AND DIFFERENT ANGELS #4
Plakafarbe auf Mylar / Plaka color on Mylar
Courtesy Nachlass Channa Horwitz und François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles / Courtesy Estate Channa Horwitz and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
TIME STRUCTURE COMPOSITION # III, SONAKINATOGRAPHY I
Tinte und Plaka auf Papier / Ink and Plaka color on paper
LANGUAGE SERIES L, 1-4-5
Plakafarbe auf Papier / Plaka color on paper
Photo by Waldemar Salesski
© 2011 Photo by Ellen Davis
COUNTING IN EIGHT, MOVING BY COLOR
15.3. – 25.5.
Under the title COUNTING IN EIGHT, MOVING BY COLOR, KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition of Californian artist Channa Horwitz (1932–2013), funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Featuring important works from all phases of the artist's career, the survey provides an introduction to her œuvre and insight into key series such as the LANGUAGE SERIES, SONAKINATOGRAPHY, RHYTHMS, and STRUCTURES. In addition, a selection of construction drawings and documentary material is made public for the first time, through close cooperation with the trustees of the artist's estate in Los Angeles.
In the late 1960s, Channa Horwitz developed an artistic language that attained freedom through deliberate confinement to a few simple rules. Since then, each one of her works has been based on the numbers one through eight, additionally often with a specific color code assigned to each number. Orienting herself to the format of standard American graph paper, the artist could depict time with the aid of graphic units, and movement in time as the corresponding color schemata. In this way, she designed structures that translate spatial- temporal relations into drawings, paintings, and multimedia sculptures.
The exhibition at KW retraces the development that led Channa Horwitz from figurative painting to conceptual abstraction. On the one hand, the increasing abstraction of figural motifs led her to the basic forms of the circle, the square and rectangle, from which the LANGUAGE SERIES (1964–2011) emerged, among others. On the other hand, she developed a system of depicting movement – both of bodies and of objects in space, and of the voice and sound over time – as notations. These early experiments with moving objects led to the series SONAKINATOGRAPHY (1968–2012), which she continued until her death in 2013, when it comprised of twenty-three different compositions in manifold variations.
"Sonakinatography" was her new term, combining the Greek words for "sound", "movement", and "writing/recording". Each drawing in the series could as well be presented as a performance or a concert, or transformed into a spatial installation. For this exhibition, a variation of each completed composition from this work complex – the artist's most well- known to date – are brought together for the first time, and their presentation space forms the core of the exhibition. Since the mid-1970s, Horwitz started to explore new patterns, shapes, and movements which led to series such as RHYTHMS and STRUCTURES,and incorporated up to four parallel levels within one drawing.
When Channa Horwitz died in 2013 at the age of eighty, her international career had just recently begun. From the mid-sixties until the 2000's, the artist lived and worked in seclusion and her work was rarely exhibited.
- PRESS TEXT -
Installation View "what fruit it bears", Peres Projects, Berlin; front: Vojtech Kovarik, Laocoon, 2020, Acrylic, spray paint and sand on canvas, 220 x 200 cm
New Fauves
"what fruit it bears" at Peres Projects, Berlin
Patrick Panetta, Café Durban, 2020, HD Video and sound, 00:04:05 min.
Daata Art Fair
COLIN LANG spent a few hours at the Daata Art Fair and thinks you should too!
Still from Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal, 1957
THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: 2020
DEAN KISSICK reviews a long year.
All images, Stills from Flavio Mogherini, The Pyjama Girl Case, 1977, 103 min. (Zodiac Produzioni)
Falling Out: Yellow PJs
COLIN LANG's on the trail of Gialli, the Italian mystery/horror b-genre that spawned classics like The Pyjama Girl Case (1977). Timely or not, it's a riot.
Coco Mademoiselle Perfume, Ceramics by Seth Bogart
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THE KAITLIN PHILLIPS HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
The holidays are upon us once again, and for this month's column, KAITLIN PHILLIPS's forty closest friends have the perfect thing in mind. Links included and you should definitely open them all!
Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell
Legacy Russell's Glitch-y CyberSomatics, A Fourth Wave Feminist Manifesto
Folio of Adam and Eve expelled from paradise from the Dispersed Falnama (Book of Omens), ca. 1550. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC.
The Downward Spiral: Centrist Dad Ouroboros
A lot's changed in New York since we last heard from Dean Kissick in October. A president was elected and fresh plywood added to store façades, quickly blanketed in new graffiti hearts. Hope and the 5G conspiracy are pretty tricky things.
Lorna Simpson, Woman on a Snowball, 2018. © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy of the artist and Houser & Wirth; all images © Palazzo Grassi, photography Marco Cappelletti
"Untitled, 2020. Three perspectives on the art of the present" at Punta della Dogana, Venice
Untitled, Hair, glue, 75 x 70 x 11 cm
The Things We Leave Behind
Michael E. Smith at the Vienna Secession
Installation view "On Adornments", 2020, Spike Berlin
Between Friends – Interview with Marian Ivan & Olga Temnikova
Spike Berlin has been host to a collaborative show between Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, and Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn. Before the final days of the group show, we spoke to the gallerists about the situation in their home countries, and how the show "On Adornments" came together.
Philip Guston, Riding Around, 1969, Oil on canvas, 137 x 201 cm; Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Falling Out: There's No Place Like America Today
There's been a debate raging about the postponement of a massive Philip Guston retrospective at four different museums. So, naturally COLIN LANG has to throw his yarmulke into the ring.
Manage display
"My works are the most sincere and tragic things I have done in life"
"If I tell you I have to kill you with my laser vision"