Channa Horwitz

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Channa Horwitz (born May 21, 1932 in Boyle Heights , Los Angeles , California as Channa Helene Shapiro ; † April 29, 2013 in Santa Monica , California) was an American conceptual artist . Her work was mostly based on notations with which she described complex systems.

life and work

Channa Horwitz has been working with numbers, rhythms, movements and the possibilities of visualizing these structures since the early sixties. Her drawings are often diagrams that record time and movement and can be read like a form of musical score. In some cases, these serve as instructions for performances and musical experiments.

“With the help of deductive logic, I developed a visual philosophy. Because I felt the need to control time and compose, just as I had previously controlled and composed two-dimensional drawings and paintings. I chose a diagram as the basis for the visual description of time. I assigned values ​​to the diagram: One inch stands for one pulse in time. Using this diagram, I created compositions that visually represented rhythm. "

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Channa Horwitz's works are reminiscent of the work of Hanne Darboven , which developed it almost at the same time in New York , with the attempt to fix time and its own inherent logic, which always takes the number eight as a starting point .

Channa Horwitz lived and worked in Los Angeles.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2015: “Counting in Eight, Moving by Color”, Kunst-Werke Berlin
  • 2011: "Displacement", curated by Marc Glöde, Y8, Hamburg
  • 2011: “What Would Happen If I”, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
  • 2010: "Hello is not like I would say goodbye" Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
  • 2010: "Sequences and Systems", Solway Jones, Los Angeles
  • 2009: "Variations in Counting One Through Eight", Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam eV, Potsdam
  • 2009: "Searching / Structures 1960-2007", Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
  • 2007: “Variances”, Solway Jones, Los Angeles
  • 2007: "Channa Horwitz: Variations in Counting One", Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam (Catalog)
  • 1988: "Paintings and Drawings", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2012: "Ghosts in the Machine", New Museum, New York
  • 2012: "Made in LA", Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
  • 2012: "Paper / Paper II", Kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn
  • 2012: “Systems and Structures”, Casas Riegner Gallery, Bologna
  • 2012: "How To Make - Ideas, Notations, Materializations", Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
  • 2012: "Moments, A History of Performance in 10 Acts", ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
  • 2012: “Hanne Darboven and Channa Horwitz”, Galerie Crone, Berlin
  • 2008: "Zero", Aanant & Zoo, Berlin

Works in museums

literature

Lexically
  • Who's Who in American Art 2007-2008 , p. 593, Marquis Who's Who, 2006
  • Who's who in American art , RR Bowker, 2003
  • Who's who in American art, 1991-92 , p. 517, RR Bowker Verlag, 1990
Exhibition catalogs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Channa Horwitz in: Los Angeles Times
  2. ↑ Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam eV (ed.), Channa Horwitz - Searching Structures 1960 - 2007, argobooks, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941560-06-2 , p. 3
  3. ↑ Obituary for Channa Horwitz in: Artforum
  4. ↑ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 15, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kw-berlin.de
  5. ^ Profile of the artist on artfacts.net
  6. ↑ taken from the artist's profile on artfacts
personal data
SURNAME Horwitz, Channa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shapiro, Channa Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Boyle Heights , Los Angeles , California , USA
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2013
Place of death Santa Monica , California , USA