Words and names erupt from nowhere like a William Burroughs cut-up,clouds collide and paper seems to mutate into summary sculpture before your very eyes in this major exhibition of the American artist’s drawingsCakewalk. Quonset hut. Written on the Wind. Eyefuck. Words and more words fill Roni Horn’s drawings in Butterfly Doubt, the largest exhibition of the American sculptor’s drawings I have seen. Drawing precedes writing. For Horn the two are inextricable. There is no stop to the words: movie titles, and names,dirty words, nouns, and conjunctions and slang. She has a way with words,and sense is not a fraction of it.
The spiralling vortices in Roni Horn’s drawing Or 5 look like weather-systems seen from a satellite, or like bugs, or pond life,things caught under a microscope and blown up enormous. Other drawings in the Or series evoke weather too, clouds colliding or dropping rain down onto the enormous sheets of paper above which which they float, or are captured in a latticework of cuts and realignments.
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Source: theguardian.com