Galleria Raffaella Cortese presents a new solo show by Roni Horn, focused exclusively on drawings and works on paper.

Installed across all three gallery spaces, the exhibition coalesces works from four recent series, made between 2016 and 2023, many of which have never been shown in Italy: Frick and fracks, Wits’ end mash, An elusive red figure…, and Slarips.

Drawing has been a central element in Horn’s practice for nearly 40 years, describing it as a “primary activity,” aimed at exploring linguistic limits and sculptural potential through processes of constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing images and texts.

Roni Horn was born in 1955 New York. She lives and works in New York City. She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 1997.

Horn’s artistic production, which spans for about fifty years now, explores the changing nature of art through sculpture, works on paper, photography and books. Roni’s drawings focus on the materiality of the objects depicted, using also the written word at the basis of his drawings and other works. Horn creates complex relationships between the observer and his works, for example by placing a single piece on opposite walls, in communicating rooms or across a series of different spaces and buildings. Horn subverts the notion of “identical experience” by insisting that self-perception is determined by place in the “here-and-there” and by a time in the “now-and-then”. Her works also combine the critical relationship between mankind and nature; a relationship similar to a mirror, in which we try to shape nature according to our image. Over the past fourty years, Roni Horn’s work has been intimately linked to particular photographs, the geology, climate and culture of Iceland.