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Island Zombie
Roni Horn
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Kunst
Beschreibung
An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural world
I’m often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.—from the introduction
Contemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island’s treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn’s creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, episodes, and illustrated essays, Island Zombie distills the artist’s lifelong experience of Iceland’s natural environment. Together, these pieces offer an unforgettable exploration of the indefinable and inescapable force of remote, elemental places, and provide a sustained look at how an island and its atmosphere can take possession of the innermost self.
Island Zombie is a meditation on being present. It vividly conveys Horn’s experiences, from the deeply profound to the joyful and absurd. Through powerful evocations of the changing weather and other natural phenomena—the violence of the wind, the often aggressive birds, the imposing influence of glaciers, and the ubiquitous presence of water in all its variety—we come to understand the author’s abiding need for Iceland, a place uniquely essential to Horn’s creative and spiritual life. The dramatic surroundings provoke examinations of self-sufficiency and isolation, and these ruminations summon a range of cultural companions, including El Greco, Emily Dickinson, Judy Garland, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Allan Poe, William Morris, and Rachel Carson. While brilliantly portraying nature’s sublime energy, Horn also confronts issues of consumption, destruction, and loss, as the industrial and man-made encroach on Icelandic wilderness.
Filled with musings on a secluded region that perpetually encourages a sense of discovery, Island Zombie illuminates a wild and beautiful Iceland that remains essential and new.
Kundenbewertungen
Landscape, The Newspaper, Emily Dickinson, Mouth, Snow, Atlantic Ocean, Iceland, Sleep, Yellow rain, Pesticide, Black sand, Wavelet, Darkness, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Dirt, Tourism, Sea foam, Oystercatcher, Hot pot, Uniqueness, Lava, Early childhood, Peephole, Emptiness, Vegetation, Sweater, Arctic tern, Social relation, Anatomy, Entryway, Hummock, Whiteness, Wildness, Roundness (object), Pollution, Swimming pool, Room temperature, Surtsey, Lava field, Plumage, Stream bed, Arctic Circle, Tent, Vibration, Ocean, Blizzard, Hekla, Linoleum, Sea level, Surtshellir, Housewife, Ceiling, Sense of Place, Litter, Artangel, Dirt road, Patina, River Can, Snowdrift, Hellissandur, Water heating, Awareness, Meal, Sea ice, Electricity, Infrastructure, Wetsuit, Weather, Iceberg, Steam