Pink Tons, 2008
solid cast glass, 48 x 48 x 48″ (121.9 x 121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich and London

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Her massive five-ton cube of pink glass was shot through with imperfections: cracks that refracted sunlight through the undulating waves of its vertiginous interior. The shade of pink was shocking – the color of the most sensitive of flesh. The sculpture sat obdurate and silent but expectant, waiting for the day it would, due to the forces of minute molecular movement, break open, shattering in ecstasy. – by HELEN MOLESWORTH, chief curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

For more than thirty years, RONI HORN has developed a body of work exploring the themes of identity, location, nature and time,  not as a fixed and monolithic concepts but multifaceted and changeable finding an echo in the diversity of practices and media she adopts in her work: drawings, books, photographic installations, sculptures and many more.

Born in New York in 1955, HORN achieved international recognition in the 1980s and her works have been the subject of numerous major exhibitions, more recently at i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (2011), Hauser & Wirth, ‘Roni Horn. Recent Work’, London (2011), Hamburger Kunsthalle, ‘Photographien / Photographic Works’, Hamburg (2011) and at FLAG Art Foundation, ‘Double Mobius’, New York (2011).