Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn was born in 1944 in Germany. She studied at the Hamburg Academy for Fine Arts in the late 1960s. Some of her inspirational artists are Franz Kafka and Jean Genet. She started making art in the 1970s when she began teaching at the California Art Institute and at the University of San Diego. She mainly works with spacial installations, drawings, and photography. She pays particular attention to the physical and technical functionality of her works.
One of her most famous works is called the body-extensions. In this installment she plays with the body and its reaction to the space that it is in. This has given into her works now that deal with structures that she has created that take on their own life and how they react in the space that she puts them in. She is also fond of mirrors, light, and music since they seem to help the artwork cut through the space that it is put in.

She has been known to use a variety of materials such as violins, suitcases, pianos, and large ladders. One of the most astonishing things that she has used in her pieces is a large spiral drawing machines and huge funnels. She uses these materials in a way that sets them free from their everyday use and she makes them comment on Mythical, historical, literary, and spiritual imagery.
Her work is very interesting to a person who has been following her for a long time as well as a new viewer. However, the viewer that has been following her for the longer time has a sort of advantage in viewing her work since it tends to build upon itself. When she reveals a new work, it is apparent that she has used her previous work and has built off of or modified it in some way. The materials that she may have used in a previous work will reappear in future works but in a completely different way however.
She is seen as a visionary in the art world because she continues to tear down the walls built between space and time. She continues to break the boundaries opening up new worlds to be explored in her art, and give the viewer only a sense of what she feels while making her pieces.

Because of a lung condition Horn had to change the materials that she worked with in the 1980s. She switched from large materials like pianos or word working and changed to smaller, less complex items such as bandages and feathers. Her work, in my opinion, has become more intriguing since this has happened.
 I think that she is a true inspiration to anyone in this field and she is a beautiful artist. She has a deepness in her work that is hard to find in artists now a days. She thinks her artwork through and really likes to analyze the way that things react in their environment. I like the though that she puts into her pieces because it really shows in the final works. She puts so much detail into every piece that it makes the viewer fall in love with the way she fashions her art.