Rebecca Horn: Rebeliao em Silencio

Rebecca Horn, The Universe in a Pearl, 2006
photo: Gunter Lepkowski/Berlin,Germany

Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce that the Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil (C.C.B.B), in cooperation with the Goethe Institute Rio de Janeiro, will present a major exhibition of the work of Rebecca Horn from May 20 until July 3, 2010, entitled Rebeliao em Silencio.

This exhibition is the first major solo retrospective of Rebecca Horn's work in Brazil. Her work, which ranges over a wide variety of media including film, performance, installation, photography and sculpture, addresses themes of perception, philosophy and communication. The employment of such wide ranging interests as science and alchemy, the rational and the intuitive, personal history and social memory, the mechanical and the sensual, has occurred repeatedly in her work over the last four decades and resulted in one of the most distinct and individual oeuvres in the art world. The exhibition at the C.C.B.B will cover the full breadth of Horn's oeuvre including films of early performance works, sculptural installations with light or sound and a selection of the recent, much celebrated large scale paintings on paper that Horn began in 2004.