Rebecca Horn Rebecca Horn was born in 1944 in Germany where she grew up to become one of the most illustrious contemporary German artists of the twentieth-century. She is still currently living and now lives all over the world having homes in New York, Berlin, and London. Her unusual and intense performance pieces have brought her a spot in the art books. In her work, she combines a variety of media: video, performance, installation, and sculpture, …
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…egg and a threatening pointed rod abut, the way an insubstantial cone of pigment echoes a funnel that holds the memory of liquid once channeled through it, the contrast of powdery pigment and sleek stainless steel, and the way man-made and natural substances relate, are as important as the associations they call up in the viewer (Wilkin). If her pieces didn't affect the viewer in this way, Horn wouldn't be worth taking seriously. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**