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Roni Horn: When I Breathe, I Draw, Part II

Friday, Jun. 7, 2019 – Sunday, Sep. 1, 2019

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The second part of the exhibition, on view June 7–September 1, 2019, brings together a series of drawings that exemplify Horn’s innovative technique of cutting as a way of drawing. Bridging her interest in the precariousness of language with dismantling the image through cutting, Th Rose Prblm (2015-2016) and The Dog’s Chorus (2016) are intricately assembled accumulations of sliced and fragmented words. Combining well-known literary texts by Gertrude Stein and William Shakespeare with colloquial expressions, the works shape novel formulations and collaborations. Like all of Horn’s drawings, they do not record or represent what the artist sees in the world. Rather, the drawn marks create new spaces that, according to the artist, “take you through the world.”

The exhibition’s title evokes the integral place of drawing within Horn’s artistic practice. It is derived from the artist’s understanding that drawing is akin to “a kind of breathing activity on a daily level.”

This exhibition is organized by Senior Curator Michelle White for the Menil Drawing Institute.

Roni Horn lives and works in New York and Reykjavik. Her work has been the subject of numerous major exhibitions including Roni Horn at the Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2016); Roni Horn a.k.a Roni Horn, organized by the Tate Modern, London, which travelled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2009-2010). Horn received her MFA from Yale University in 1978 and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975. Her work is held in major collections around the world.

Major funding for the publication is provided by Hauser & Wirth.

Major funding for this exhibition is provided by The National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from Suzanne Deal Booth; Clare Casademont and Michael Metz; Barbara and Michael Gamson; Diane and Michael Cannon; Christina and Norman Diekman; Gary Mercer; Scott and Judy Nyquist; Ellen and Steve Susman; the Mathew and Ann Wolf Drawings Exhibition Fund; Eddie and Chinhui Allen; Janet and Paul Hobby; Caroline Huber; the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation; Linda and George Kelly; Adelaide de Menil; Franci Neely; Susanne and William E. Pritchard III; Leslie and Shannon Sasser; Anne Schlumberger; Michael Zilkha; and the City of Houston

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