Roni Horn (born September 25, 1955 ) is an American visual artist and writer. The granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she was born in New York City, where she lives and works. She is currently represented by Xavier Hufkens in Brussels and Hauser & Wirth . She is openly gay.
43-463: [REDACTED] Look up place in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Place may refer to: Geography [ edit ] Place (United States Census Bureau) , defined as any concentration of population Census-designated place , a populated area lacking its own municipal government "Place", a type of street or road name Often implies
86-530: A census-designated place (CDP). Incorporated places are defined by the laws of the states in which they are contained. The Census Bureau delineates CDPs. A small settlement in the open countryside or the densely settled fringe of a large city may not be a place as defined by the Census Bureau. As of the 1990 census, 26% of the people in the United States lived outside of places. An incorporated place, under
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172-588: A German glass manufacturing company with whom she has worked since her student times. They also manufactured the columns of her Library of Water in Iceland. Horn's 2009-2010 work Well and Truly consists of ten solid cast glass parts, each measuring 91.5 cm in diameter and 45.5 cm in height. Well and Truly is part of a private collection, but was included in an exhibition of the same title at Kunsthaus Bregenz from April 24 to July 4, 2010. The ten glass elements are cylinders in shades of blue and pale blue greens. Horn
215-615: A Guggenheim fellowship, also in 1990. She has had one-person exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center (2017); the Art Institute of Chicago (2004); Centre Georges Pompidou , Paris (2003); Dia Center for the Arts , New York, and Museu Serralves , Porto (2001); Whitney Museum of American Art , New York; Kunsthalle Basel (1995); Rencontres d'Arles festival, France (2009) and Tate Modern , London (2009). Group exhibitions include
258-690: A commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France Plače , a small settlement in Slovenia Place (Mysia) , a town of ancient Mysia, Anatolia, now in Turkey Place, New Hampshire , a location in the United States Facilities and structures [ edit ] Place House , a 16th-century mansion largely remodelled in the 19th century, in Fowey, Cornwall, England Place House, a 19th-century mansion on
301-448: A dance and performance centre in Camden, London To Place , a series of books on Iceland by artist Roni Horn Unity of place , one of the three classical unities for drama derived from Aristotle's Poetics Places Journal , a journal of architecture criticism The Place (film) , a 2017 Italian film Gambling [ edit ] Craps § Place , in craps a bet that
344-581: A lighthouse. Doubt Box (Book IX) (2006) is a collection of cards rather than a bound volume. Printed on both sides, the cards show pictures of glacial water, taxidermied birds, and a face. In 2004-2006, the books were selected as some of the most important photobooks in history. A 2009 journal article stated that the nine To Place books "together constitute one of the most important groups of artists' books since Ed Ruscha 's 1960s books and Bernd and Hilla Becher 's publications on industrial architecture." Other publications include Dictionary of Water , This
387-481: A permanent installation at the University of Akureyri in Iceland, consists of 80 photographs of water dispersed throughout the university's public spaces. In 2007 she undertook Artangel ’s first international commission, creating Vatnasafn / Library of Water , a long-term installation in the town of Stykkishólmur , Iceland. The installation is made up of water collected from Icelandic glaciers. The "Library of Water"
430-416: A point number will be rolled before a seven Place, in horse racing, a parimutuel bet that a horse will finish first or within a predetermined number of positions of first. In North America, this would mean finishing first or second. Mathematics [ edit ] Place (mathematics) , an equivalence class of absolute values of an integral domain or field In place-value, or positional notation ,
473-476: A second gold field piece, Gold Mats, Paired-For Ross and Felix (1994-1995), dedicated to the late González-Torres and his partner Ross Laycock. Horn's 1993 series When Dickinson shut her eyes comprises eight square aluminium poles of different lengths leaning against the gallery wall, each bearing a line from Emily Dickinson 's poem A Wind that rose . Pink Tons (2008) is a solid cast glass cube 1219 x 1219 x 1219 mm, weighing 4536 kg manufactured by Schott,
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#1732841782701516-527: A single diner Sense of place , a phenomenon in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Wikiquote has quotations related to Place . [REDACTED] Search for "place" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Place All pages with titles containing Place Location (disambiguation) Locus (disambiguation) , Latin for 'place' Placement (disambiguation) Plaice ,
559-467: A song from Ella Henderson's 2022 album Everything I Didn't Say Places (Georgie James album) , 2007 Places (Jan Garbarek album) , 1978 Places (Lea Michele album) , 2017 The Place (album), a 2003 music album Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media [ edit ] Place , Australian magazine merged into The Adelaide Review in 2008 r/place , a social experiment by Reddit for April Fool's Day The Place, London ,
602-420: A studio in a bad neighborhood with very little daylight. It was dangerous and depressing." Horn received an MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 1978. Since 1975 she has travelled often to Iceland , whose landscape and isolation have strongly influenced her practice. Horn has been intimately involved with the singular geography, geology, climate and culture of Iceland . She first traveled to Iceland in
645-468: A town called Dyrhólaey . The series totals thirteen drawings, all made on note cards. The second book, Folds (1991), is a collection of photographs documenting extant sheepfolds. To Place: Verne's Journey (1995) is the fifth in the series. A photographic essay, the seventh volume Arctic Circles (1998) records the endless horizon of the North Sea, the feathers of an eider nest, and the rotating beacon of
688-624: A type of fish, misspelt as 'place' Plas (disambiguation) Platz (disambiguation) Plaza Laplace (disambiguation) , including "la Place" Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Place . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Place&oldid=1253175396 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
731-563: A viewer to dismiss any one image as being identical to the one next to it. 'You' have to look hard." Many of the images in You Are the Weather were published in one of the To Place volumes. You are the Weather, Part 2 , follows the same form as You are the Weather and features the same model, 15 years later. The 45 color images of Horn's installation Pi (1998) were installed on all four walls of
774-829: Is Me, This is You , Cabinet of , If on a Winter's Night , Her, Her, Her, & Her , Wonderwater (Alice Offshore) , and Index Cixous, 2003 – 05 . Weather has played an important role in Horn's work. She has created several public artworks, including You Are the Weather—Munich (1996–97), a permanent installation for the Deutscher Wetterdienst bureau in Munich. You in You (1997), a rubber-tiled walkway in Basel's east train station, mimics an unusual basalt formation of Iceland. Some Thames (2000),
817-470: Is a photographic cycle featuring 100 close-up shots of the same woman, Margret, in a variety of Icelandic geothermal pools. Notes written by Horn about this work were included in the catalogue that accompanied Horn's 2009 traveling retrospective Roni Horn aka Roni Horn . The two-volume book includes a Subject Index that brought together writings and reflections on works, themes, titles and topics related to Horn's practice. Curator Donna De Salvo says, " You are
860-561: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Place (United States Census Bureau) The United States Census Bureau defines a place as a concentration of population which has a name, is locally recognized, and is not part of any other place. A place typically has a residential nucleus and a closely spaced street pattern, and it frequently includes commercial property and other urban land uses. A place may be an incorporated place (a self-governing city , town , or village ) or it may be
903-508: Is housed in a former library building in Stykkisholmur on the west coast of Iceland. Horn noticed the building in the 1990s. It is located at the high point of the town, overlooking the harbour and the sea. It was conceived by Horn in 2004 as a sculpture installation and a community center. In 2004, Hauser & Wirth in London was the location of an installation by Horn entitled Agua Viva for
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#1732841782701946-422: Is the only state that uses all four terms for types of incorporated places. Only two other states ( Connecticut and Pennsylvania ) include "boroughs" as incorporated places. Eleven U.S. states have only "cities", and the remainder of the states have various combinations of "cities", "towns", and "villages". Not all entities designated as "towns" and "boroughs" are considered by the Census Bureau to be places. In
989-576: The Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. The pictures were taken over a six-year period in Iceland. Still Water (The River Thames, for Example) (1999) is a single work composed of fifteen photographic offset lithographs, each 30 + 1 ⁄ 2 x 41 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches. It is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. It was commissioned around 1998, and Horn has noted that it came about at
1032-690: The Whitney Biennial (1991, 2004); Documenta (1992); and Venice Biennale (1997), among others. In 2004 she was a visiting critic at Columbia University . In November 2009, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened a survey show of Horn's work. Titled "Roni Horn aka Roni Horn", the show travelled to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (2010),the Tate Modern , London (25 February - 25 May 2009), and
1075-402: The 1970s. Since her first encounter with the island as a young arts graduate visiting on a fellowship from Yale, Horn has returned to Iceland frequently. The ongoing series of books entitled To Place (1990-) concern Iceland. Reproducing 13 watercolour and graphite drawings, Bluff Life (1990) was produced in 1982 during a two-month stay in a lighthouse off the southern coast of Iceland in
1118-850: The Census Bureau's definition, is a type of governmental unit incorporated under state law as a city, town (except in the New England states, New York , and Wisconsin ), borough (except in Alaska and New York), or village, and having legally prescribed limits, powers, and functions. Requirements for incorporation vary widely among the states; some states have few specific criteria, while others have established population thresholds and occasionally other conditions (for example, minimum land area, population density , and distance from other existing incorporated places) that must be met for incorporation. The Census Bureau recognizes incorporated places in all U.S. states except Hawaii ; for Hawaii, by agreement with
1161-643: The Census Bureau. The boundaries of a CDP have no legal status and may not correspond with the local understanding of the area with the same name. Recognized communities may be divided into two or more CDPs while on the other hand, two or more communities may be combined into one CDP. A CDP may also cover the unincorporated part of a named community where the rest lies within an incorporated place. Although only about one-fifth as numerous as incorporated places (in 1990, of 23,435 "places", 19,289 were incorporated municipalities, and 4,146 were not incorporated municipalities), CDPs are important geographic units. The CDP permits
1204-630: The Collection Lambert in Avignon (21 June - 4 October 2009). In 2016 Horn had a solo exhibition in Tilburg, The Netherlands, at De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art . In February 2019, The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas held a two part solo exhibition, "When I Breathe, I Draw". The first part, features Horn's large scale works on paper, and the second, was devoted to works created from cutting, housed in
1247-861: The Office of the Governor, the Census Bureau recognizes all places as census-designated places (CDPs) rather than as incorporated places. Puerto Rico and several of the outlying areas under United States jurisdiction (such as Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands ) also have no incorporated places. Different states use a variety of terms for their incorporated places. The designations "city", "town", "village", and "borough" are most frequent, but one or more places in Kentucky , Montana , Nevada , and Tennessee have place-type governments (usually consolidated ones) that do not have any of these designations. New Jersey
1290-514: The United States resided in CDPs. Statistics Canada uses the term designated place (DPL) for unincorporated population centers. However, the criteria for delineating a DPL are different from that for a CDP. The Census Bureau lists a location (latitude and longitude) for each place, although this list is not intended for general use and is part of the Bureau's TIGER mapping system to graphically represent
1333-472: The Weather depicts a living, rather than an inert, thing. Horn complicated the notion of surface and skin. This treatment of the face smudges the distinction between object and subject. Just who is the 'you'? Of course all answers are completely dependent upon who chooses to inhabit the role of 'you.' It's a discovery process, which in some ways reflects the making of the work itself. The subtle and not so subtle difference in these photographs make it difficult for
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1376-404: The exhibition Rings of Lispector . The installation consisted of interconnecting rubber tiles into which fragments of text from Hélène Cixous ' English translation of Clarice Lispector 's Agua Viva ( The Stream of Life ) were embedded into the floor in contrasting shades of tan-colored rubber. Horn manipulated passages of the text to shape partial and overlapping rings and loops, playing with
1419-443: The order and coherence of Lispector's text. The rubber floor's dimensions at Hauser & Wirth London were approximately 1,500 square feet, with each rubber tile 69 inches square. It contained 25 "rubber floor drawings" with additional plain tiles so that the piece would fit wall to wall. Hélène Cixous wrote the accompanying monograph for the installation. Horn's first photographic installation, You Are The Weather (1994-1996),
1462-406: The position occupied by a digit in a numeral Petri net , also known as a Place/transition net, a mathematical representation of discrete distributed systems Society [ edit ] Place, a person's social position Place identity , a group of ideas concerning significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants or users Place setting, a table setting for
1505-497: The same place and may even be outside the area that local residents think of as that community. The Census Bureau's location of a place is the approximate geographic center of the polygon making up the boundaries of the place at the time of the decennial census. The USGS location of a populated place is the center of the original place, if known, such as the city or town hall, main post office, town square or main intersection regardless of changes over time. Roni Horn Horn
1548-676: The same time as the end of a long love relationship. Each of the 15 lithographs features a photograph of the surface of the River Thames that has been annotated with many small white numerals that correspond to a bar of footnotes that runs along the lower border of each image. Félix González-Torres had the opportunity to view Horn's sculpture Forms from the Gold Field in 1990 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles . In 1993, he made Untitled (Placebo-Landscape-for Roni) . In response, Horn made
1591-842: The site of a medieval priory, in St Anthony in Roseland , Cornwall, England Prideaux Place , an Elizabethan mansion in Padstow, Cornwall, England The Place (London) , a dance and performance centre in London, England People with the name [ edit ] Place (surname) , people with the surname Place Arts, entertainment, and media [ edit ] Music [ edit ] Places (Martin Solveig song) , 2016 Places (Xenia Ghali song) Albums [ edit ] Places (Béla Fleck album) , 1988 Places (Brad Mehldau album) , 2000 Places (Casiopea album) , 2003 "Places",
1634-403: The six New England states, and in New York and Wisconsin, the term "town" refers to what the Census Bureau classifies as a minor civil division (MCD) rather than a place. The MCDs in these states, while often functioning with all the powers of city governments, can contain considerable rural area; outside of New England, other units of government perform the incorporated place function. In Alaska,
1677-498: The statistical areas used in census data. The Census Bureau's criteria for establishing the location does not correspond to the criteria used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for locating named communities, which is intended to be an authoritative reference for a place's location. The central location of a place shown on Census Bureau maps for a community may differ significantly from that on USGS maps for
1720-436: The tabulation of population counts for many localities that otherwise would have no identity within the Census Bureau's framework of geographic areas. By defining an area as a CDP, that locality then appears in the same category of census data as incorporated places. This distinguishes CDPs from other census classifications, such as minor civil divisions (MCDs), which are in a separate category. In 1990, over 29 million people in
1763-644: The term "borough" refers to territory governed as a county rather than as a place; in New York, the Census Bureau treats the five boroughs that make up New York City as MCDs. Census-designated places (CDPs) are communities that lack separate municipal governments, and for statistical purposes are defined by the Census Bureau in order to statistically combine and compare populated areas that physically resemble incorporated places. Before each decennial census, CDPs are delineated by state and local agencies, and by tribal officials according to Census Bureau criteria. The resulting CDP delineations are then reviewed and approved by
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1806-762: Was born on September 25, 1955, in New York City. She was named for her grandmothers, both of whom were named Rose. In a 2009 interview, Horn reflected on her gender neutral name as an advantage, stating "when I was young I decided that my sex, my gender, was nobody’s business." She grew up in Rockland County , New York. Horn graduated from high school early and enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design at age 16. She graduated with BFA in 1975 at age 19. Describing her "fast jaunt" in Providence , she stated "I had
1849-601: Was one of the artists featured on PBS' Art:21 series of biographies of contemporary artists. Horn's first solo exhibition (outside the university) was held in 1980 at the Kunstraum München. With two New York shows at the Paula Cooper and Leo Castelli galleries, Horn's career accelerated in the late 1980s. Horn received the CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts in 1998, NEA fellowships in 1984, 1986 and 1990, and
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