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Rebecca
Horn: out of print .................. |
In her Notebook
Samarkand the artist Rebecca Horn registers everything she saw
with her eyes and felt in her heart as she passed through one of the
great cities of the Islamic world. All her senses flow into the images
and texts that are collected here. Her notebook allows us to travel
and to experience how a contemporary artist of the West encounters
a city that was once one of the most beautiful and important cities
of the East. She photographed in Samarkand during the summer of 2001,
turned her photographs into double exposures, and painted over the
images after returning to Europe. Alongside, she wrote magical poetry.
Images and text merge into a narrative that has moved strangely close
to us since September 11. Samarkand lives the life of a traditional
Islamic city, sharing the same cultural landscape of its neighbour
Afghanistan. Through the eyes of Rebecca Horn we experience the Uzbek
capital and its people intuitively, sensing the Samarkand that is built
on a mountain of gold. .................. ..................
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