Channa Horwitz

Channa Horwitz ( born May 21, 1932 in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California as Channa Helene Shapiro, † April 29, 2013 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American conceptual artist. Their work was based mostly on notations, which she described complex systems.

Life and work

Since the early sixties, Channa Horwitz works with numbers, rhythms, movements, and the ways to visualize these structures. Your drawings are often diagrams, time and motion to hold and can be read as a form of score. These are used in some cases as instructions for performances and musical experiments.

"With the help of deductive logic, I have developed a visual philosophy. Because I felt the need to control the time and compose, as I had previously controlled and composed two -dimensional drawings and paintings. As a basis for the visual description of the time I chose a chart. The chart I arranged to values: A tariff is a pulse in time. Using this graph I have created compositions, represented the rhythm visually. "

The work Channa Horwitzs remember with the attempt to commit the time and its own inherent logic, which is becoming the number eight takes as its starting point the work of Hanne Darboven that developed this in New York around the same time.

Channa Horwitz lived and worked in Los Angeles.

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2011: " Displacement ", curated by Marc Glöde, Y8, Hamburg
  • 2011: " What Would Happen If I " Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
  • 2010: "Hello is not like I would say goodbye" Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
  • 2010: " Sequences and Systems ", SolwayJones, Los Angeles
  • 2009: " Variations in Counting One through Eight ," Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, Potsdam
  • 2009: "Searching / Structures 1960-2007 ", Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
  • 2007: " Variances ", SolwayJones, Los Angeles
  • 2007: " Channa Horwitz: Variations in Counting One", Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam (Catalog )
  • 1988: "Paintings and Drawings ", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery ( LAMAG ), Los Angeles

Group exhibitions ( selection)

  • 2012: " Ghosts in the Machine", New Museum, New York
  • 2012: "Made in LA ", Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
  • 2012: " Paper / Paper II ", Art Gallery of Bonn, Bonn
  • 2012: " Systems and Structures ", Gallery Casas Riegner, Bologna
  • 2012: " How To Make - ideas, notations, materializations ", Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
  • 2012: "Moments, A History of Performance in 10 Acts ", ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
  • 2012: " Darboven and Channa Horwitz ", Galerie Crone, Berlin
  • 2008: " Zero", Aanant & Zoo, Berlin

Works in museums

  • Prints and Drawings Berlin
  • Ritter Museum, Forest book
  • CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
  • Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan
  • MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art - Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
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