Roni Horn: Wit's End

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Accretions of the word: clich s, idioms and colloquialisms as drawing

This volume presents two recent drawing series by Roni Horn (born 1955), Wits' End Sampler (2018) and Wits' End Mash (2019). Both series use the same source material, handwritten clich s, idioms and colloquialisms authored by approximately 300 individuals.

Clich s and idioms are treated here as icons of language. One by one, clich s are silkscreened onto walls ("Sampler") or paper ("Mash"). Phrases build up, the layering simultaneously revealing and obscuring meaning.

Wits' End is the seventh edition in this series of books, following bird (2008), aka (2010), Hack Wit (2015), Th Rose Prblm (2016), The Selected Gifts (1974-2015) (2016) and Dogs' Chorus (2019), all published by Steidl.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3958299024

ISBN13:9783958299023

Release Date:February 2022

Publisher:Steidl

Length:112 Pages

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Art Arts, Music & Photography

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