The weekend before this year’s Art Basel, the Löwenbräu art center in Zürich (Switzerland) opened its doors so the public could see the renovated and restructured building that houses art galleries and institutions such as Kunsthalle Zürich, Luma Westbau / Pool etc., Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Galerie Freymond-Guth, and Hauser & Wirth.

The first exhibitions that Hauser & Wirth presents back in the Löwenbräu are shows with Hans Arp and Roni Horn. The Roni Horn show features selected drawings produced between 1984 and 2012. It’s the first survey exhibition dedicated solely to the pigment drawings of the New York-based artist. The works range from early pieces which showcase Roni Horn’s initial experimentations with pure pigment and varnish to the recent drawings that are composed of separate drawings, or “plates”.

Roni Horn: Selected Drawings 1984 – 2012 / Hauser & Wirth Zürich. Opening, June 10, 2012.

PS: See also: Roni Horn, Louise Bourgeois / Hauser & Wirth Zurich (2006).

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The exhibition “True North” at Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin explores the legacy of Northern Romantic landscape painting in contemporary video and photography. “True North” presents works by Stan Douglas, Olafur Eliasson, Elger Esser, Thomas Flechtner, Roni Horn, Armin Linke, and Orit Raff. The exhibition includes Stan Douglas’s large-scale video installation, Nutka (1999) and Roni Horn’s series of photographs entitled Pi (1997-98). The works in this show have been drawn largely from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. “Unlike their Romantic antecedents, are largely historically and politically self-reflexive, and call into question the notion of a sublime, unchangeable North – a notion visualized most famously in the heroic images of nineteenth-century landscape photography and painting, both in Europe and in North America.” (Press Release, PDF). Curator: Jennifer Blessing, Guggenheim Museum New York. Press preview, February 1, 2008.
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Hauser & Wirth Zürich presents two exhibitions: Roni Horn, Portrait of an Image and Roni Horn and Louise Bourgeois, Drawings – curated by Jerry Gorovoy. American artist Roni Horn is among the most important representatives of contemporary art. Her current exhibition is the first major solo exhibition of her work in the Zurich gallery. She shows the photo series Portrait of an Image (with Isabelle Huppert), White Dickinson (long square aluminium sculptures with words in white plastic cast within) and the glass sculpture Doubt Block. In a joint exhibition, Louise Bourgeois and Roni Horn present a selection of their fabric and pigment drawings. Jerry Gorovoy, a long-time assistent to Louise Bourgeois, is curator of the exhibition that has been designed specifically for Hauser & Wirth. Impressions from the opening reception, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, June 2, 2006.
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