Hauser & Wirth's Wooster Street location in New York City will open an exhibition of new works by Ronnie Horn on April 4. Known for blending conceptual precision with exquisite visual sensuality, her never-before-seen cast glass sculptures will accompany Horn's latest works on paper. Highlighting her enduring exploration of identity, meaning, and perception, these works continue to reveal Horne's profound engagement with humanity's relationship with the natural world.
Horn began making cast glass sculptures in the mid-1990s, pouring colored molten glass into molds that would gradually solidify over several months. As a result of years of research and development, Horn's works have an almost chemical quality: they are both liquid and solid at the same time. Aesthetically mysterious, its opaque, rough-textured sides bear impressions of the molds in which it was cast. At the same time, their shiny, fire-polished surfaces are reminiscent of the transparent crystal surface of a tranquil pond.
Horn's works are displayed in many major international institutions and collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois; Tate Modern, London, England; Kunsthal Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland; Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
