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...Abstract Expressionists claimed the canvas as a physical embodiment of their psyche and the Minimalists examined the relationship between the viewer and object. Roni Horn, in the three decades of work currently being shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA), attempts to reconcile the two. Horn, a Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University alumna, has been working as a visual artist since the 1970s, garnering critical acclaim, awards, and one-person exhibits at major institutions. Despite the immense body of work, range of time, and differing mediums that the mid-career retrospective includes, “Roni...
...Still Water (The River Thames, for Example),” the architectural space best enhances Horn’s work. Fifteen close-up color photographs of water encircle the room, and the ICA supplies a sixteenth image with its floor to ceiling view of the harbor. While this could be construed as distracting in some cases, this intrusion of the gallery space prods the viewer to notice the work’s dualities of motion and stillness, change and permanence, and similarity and difference in relation to the Boston Harbor...
While Molesworth has organized two small shows annually for Harvard, she will be responsible for nine large exhibitions per year at the ICA...
...ICA they have a very ambitious exhibition program,” she said. “There are many more opportunities. There’s more space, and all of the space at the ICA is for contemporary...
Despite her departure, Molesworth said she will continue her ties to Harvard and hopes to start an internship program for Harvard students at the ICA...