Roni Horn Research and Response ideas (Published late)

Roni Horn is a New-York-born minimalist and post minimalist artist, who takes inspiration from things like landscape, literature, the weather, and Iceland's symmetrical geography in particular. The artist works majorly with sculpture, glass work and photography.

Artist Portrait -
Taken from google images

Horn created 'Pink Tons' in 2008, and when reading articles about it, I notice how much the piece is heralded as a defiance of the masculine dominated minimalist art movement. The fact that the piece is such a feminine colour is a supposed attempt to highlight how the presence of femininity in minimalism is seen as so unusual. This leads me to think about situations dominated by one social group, or even one category (one type of pen, or one food group) that can be thrown into chaos by the presence of an 'other'. This could reflect how the mind is so exacting that it becomes discriminatory.

From the same website that discussed the piece's commentary on gender, I read:

When Horn makes self-portraits, they are studiedly unrevealing "self-portraiture in a generic form, a for-instance," she says.

Taken from: https://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/art-weve-helped-buy/artwork/12719/pink-tons-roni-horn

This suggested that 'Pink Tons' may be some kind of self-portrait, and got me considering how I hold masses of information about myself in my mind, which no one else can see. Whilst I see myself as a detailed marble sculpture, to others I could be nothing more than a big pink cube, so to speak.

This idea of self perception versus public perception along with the theory of the mind being easily tipped into chaos by an 'other', are some other things I may develop as I consider what I want my response Horn's sculpture to be.

Other articles used: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-pink-tons-t14525