ARTNET / Review
27. Februar 2009 von Christoph Bannat
Befreiendes Reglement
Channa Horwitz: „Searching/Structures 1965-2007“Aanant & Zoo, Berlin. Vom 17. Januar bis 20. März 2009
Diese Übersichtsschau ist eine kleine Sensation: die Ausstellung von Channa Horwitz, 1932 geboren, in Deutschland so gut wie unbekannt. Präsentiert werden hier Zeichnungen aus den 1960er Jahren bis 2007, und schon beim Betreten der Galerieräume spürt man eine konzentrierte Stimmung entspannter Wissenschaftlichkeit, wie man sie im Kunstbetrieb selten erlebt. ...
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January 2009, by Clemens Krümmel
Getting to know the works of Channa Horwitz certainly did not trigger any nostalgic feelings in me, although this could well have been the case on encountering an artistic endeavor that spans such a long time. Channa Horwitz, living in Los Angeles, looks back on 40 years of creation, and yet, to me, even as a relatively young art critic, who just recently met with her works, these appear very fresh. ...
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November 2007 p. 228, by Stephen Maine
During this show of recent work by veteran Los Angeles artist Channa Horwitz, there hung, in the gallery‘s back office, a schematic pencil-and-collage version of her proposal (dated 1968) for „Art and Technology,“ the landmark 1970 exhibition at the Los Angeles County museum of Art ...
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March 2007 by Andrew Berardini, Los Angeles
Channa Horwitz‘s elegant drawings and paintings derive their design from a simple mathematical language, and the minute variations of their predetermined patterns play out in this exhibition across multiple series. Informed by a Conceptual imperative, Horwitz‘s oeuvre falls somewhere between minimalism and Op art, though it avoids easy placement in either ...
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July-August 1976, by Channa Horwitz
I have created a visual philosophy by working with deductive logic. I had a need to control and compose time as I had controlled and composed two dimensional drawings and paintings. To do this, I chose a graph as the basis for the visual description of time. I gave the graph a value: one inch became one beat or pulse in time. Using this graph, I made compositions that depicted rhythm visually ...
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Juli-August 1976, von Channa Horwitz
Mit Hilfe der deduktiven Logik habe ich eine visuelle Philosophie erarbeitet. Denn ich hatte das Bedürfnis, die Zeit zu kontrollieren und zu komponieren, so wie ich zuvor zwei-dimensionale Zeichnungen und Malereien kontrolliert und komponiert hatte. Als Grundlage für die visuelle Beschreibung der Zeit wählte ich ein Diagramm. Dem Diagramm ordnete ich Werte zu: Ein Zoll steht für einen Pulsschlag in der Zeit. Unter Anwendung dieses Diagramms habe ich Kompositionen erschaffen, die Rhythmus visuell darstellten.
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September 18-November 10, 1996, Junior Arts Center gallery, Bamsdall Art ParkCurated by Noel Korten
The recent Investigations exhibition at Barnsdall Art Park was an exhibition of systematic, interactive and experiential artworks that explored the linkages between art, mathematics and science. Arnong the artists in the exhibition were several who employ systematic processes that mitigate the artist‘s self determination and expressive role. Artists who create and employ systematic processes invest themselves in the process and allow the system, to varying degrees, to determine their design ...
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February 23 through March 25, 1978,An exhibition presented at the Baxter Art gallery on the campus of the California Institute of technology, Pasadena, California in cooperation with the Pasadena Art Alliance.Dr. Susan C. Larsen, guest Curator
The impulse to order, the pursuit of a logical and complete whole, has long been a motivating force in artistic creation. We recognize the existence of harmonie proportions in a Greek temple, in the measured and clearly articulated spaces of a painting by Piero de la Francesco or Poussin, in the order wrested out of dynamic equilibrium in a composition by mondrian ...
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