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Roni Horn: "Verne's Journey, Selections," Special Limited Edition Portfolio of Three Four-Color Offset Prints in a Folio (Issued Privately by the Artist Prior to Publication of the Book "Verne's Journey: Ísland (Iceland): To Place 5") [SIGNED]

Publisher: New York: Roni Horn, 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: As New
Item #: 109776

$4,500.00

Specifics

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First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered on the front of the folio in black ink by Horn. Four unbound sheets, plus a title page, contained in a dark gray trifold folio with title printed in black on front. The sheets consist of 3 four-color plates and a "map" of place names. 14 x 11 inches. Extremely scarce.

Condition

As New (from the artist's archive).

Description

From Roni Horn (in a 1995 interview with Claudia Spinelli): "The entrance to all my work is the idea of an encyclopedia of identity. It is best represented by the books, the series called To Place, which is extremely important to me. I have been working on this since 1988. It's really the heart. It is a series of books, each one of which adds to the whole in a way that alters the identity of it retroactively. So the first volume appears to be a book of drawings. The second book was about a completely different subject but in the same format. With the third volume people start to realize something: 'Well, this looks like a series, so there must be some relationship. But I haven't a clue as to what it is.' Then there was the fourth volume, with texts and photographs. The books are this very slow process of accumulation in the period of a life, my life."