Rebecca Horn

Of course at that

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Of course at that time, especially here in America, we were dealing with women’s liberation. Things weren’t so easy then. Méret Oppenheim wasn’t so directly involved in this – she was in her 60s at that point. She found her strength through competing with the great male artists of her time; Max Ernst and Marcel … Read more

Méret Oppenheim was a

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Méret Oppenheim was a very erotic woman. She also liked provocation, and if you could provoke surrealists at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, or similar Dadaist hangouts in Basel, where you could normally get away with these things, you were truly a provocateur. Rebecca Horn

This idea of the

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This idea of the body as a feast, it stems from Giuseppe Arcimboldo, moves to Viennese artists like Günter Brus, and then you have Salvador Dalí of course, then much later, Marina Abramović and Ulay, with their nude series in Italy. It’s an ongoing conversation. There was nothing cruel about Méret’s Oppenheim piece. Rebecca Horn

I always did drawings.

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I always did drawings. Then, few years ago, I started working with large-scale paper. It’s an extension of performance, because the pieces are the size of my full body. I use pencils, acrylic, watercolors, and I also incorporate textual messages. I did most of them in a monastery in Spain at the top of a … Read more