An exhibiton of Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn, 'Cockfeather Mask' 1973

Rebecca Horn

At the beginning I felt it looks like some punishments. Actually, the artist found the relationship among female body, emotion and environment. This is relative to the artist‘s experience in hospital. In the other aspect, I think hospitalized also belongs to a form of physical punishment.

Its construction gave me some inspirations of thinking about emotion and it is also a record transformed the artist’s anatomy unto a machine for repetitive.

Rebecca Horn, 'Arm Extensions' 1968

She focused on the subject about series of drawings whose mark-making echoes the scale and movements of her own body. And she also interested in the representation of distressed bodies, especially various physical constraints or prosthetic attachments.

There is a video in the exhibition. It showed how to use or wear these art works. For me it is not only interesting installations but also a worth studied critical and theoretical thinking method. These concentrated actions investigate the relationship between a body, its surrounding space and the senses. Erotically charged gestures and aimless repetitions are deployed to poetic, ritual or even comical effect.

During my Ma project, sometimes I will be stuck by research method. But this exhibition gave me a sample for practice.

Rebecca Horn, 'Pencil Mask' 1972

Rebecca Horn, 'Untitled (Head Extension)' 1971

Bibliography

1.Tate, (1973). Rebecca Horn, 'Cockfeather Mask' 1973. [online] Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-cockfeather-mask-t07849 [Accessed 8 Nov. 2015].

2.Tate, (1968). Rebecca Horn, 'Arm Extensions' 1968. [online] Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-arm-extensions-t07857 [Accessed 8 Nov. 2015].

3.Tate, (1972). Rebecca Horn, 'Pencil Mask' 1972. [online] Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-pencil-mask-t07847 [Accessed 8 Nov. 2015].

4.Tate, (1971). Rebecca Horn, 'Untitled (Head Extension)' 1971. [online] Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-untitled-head-extension-t12790 [Accessed 8 Nov. 2015].