This installation photograph shows a total of four works by the artist Roni Horn. The approximate centre of the picture forms a corner of the room, on one wall is a large-format painting, on the other wall are four smaller works on paper. Small cubes with letters are spread out on the wooden floor.
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    Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Roni Horn

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    "When you travel, it's also about dying. In the end, it's about death." (Felix Gonzalez-Torres)

    The exchange of gold was the starting point for the dialogue between Felix Gonzales-Torres and Roni Horn. Deeply moved by Roni Horn's work Forms from the Gold Field (1980-82), a wafer-thin fragile mat made of two pounds of pure gold, Torres expressed his admiration to her. Several days later, Horn sent him a rectangular piece of gold leaf as a sign of her affinity. With this, she was not only alluding to their common artistic vision but also to Torres's sculptural stacks of paper inviting exhibition visitors to participate in the artwork. Torres then dedicated his work Untitled / Placebo – Landscape for Roni (1993) – a huge field of candies wrapped in gold cellophane – to her.

    Sammlung Goetz unites the two contrasting artists, who have so much in common in addition to gold, in a duo exhibition. Both Gonzales-Torres as well as Horn deal with the metaphysics of travel, the transformation of places, remembrance and transience. Installations, sculptures, objects, photographs and drawings from the 1980s and 1990s are presented.

    Felix Gonzalez-Torres created a portrait of Ingvild Goetz for the new gallery building by architects Herzog & de Meuron. The image made of words from personal and collective memories of the collector was glued to the semi-transparent strip windows and is thus permanently conjoined with the building. Gonzales-Torres's poster campaign for his work Untitled (1992), in the public space, however, is temporary. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, he posted photographs of a man behind a gauze curtain at various places in Munich.

    For the exhibition opening a symposium with lectures by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn will be held at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich on May 5, 1995.

    Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Roni Horn

    88 pages, 66 ill., softcover
    German/English
    1995, Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz GmbH, Hamburg

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    Since 2019, in the context of the Sammlung+ format, the Sammlung Moderne Kunst has presented artistic discoveries, new acquisitions and thematic foci in the Pinakothek der Moderne in collaboration with partners and foundations. This has led to the emergence of new perspectives on the collections, new insights into research work and the establishment of new dialogues. It is in this framework that a selection of paintings by the Japanese artist group Gutai from the Sammlung Goetz will be presented in room 23, within a series of rooms focusing on near-contemporaneous regional and German abstraction phenomena under the title “Walk the Line.”  Founded in 1954 by the abstract painter Jiro Yoshihara, Gutai was one of the 20th century’s most innovative artistic movements, which combined action, abstraction and materiality.

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