To Place. 1-11 plus the Inner Geography supplement (all published to date).

£9,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

complete signed set A complete signed set of Roni Horn's epic and ambitious, ongoing encyclopedic series 'To Place'. Each volume deals with a different theme, and together they combine to build a portrait of both Iceland and the artist herself. Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975, and since then it has become the inspiration and location for much of her work. She explains her fascination as being because, 'Iceland is the place where I have the clearest view of myself and my relationship to the world. By clearest view, I mean a view that is not constricted by social conventions' (In Numbers). In a 1995 interview with Claudia Spinelli for the Journal of Contemporary Art, Horn discussed the importance of this series and its place within her work: 'The entrance to all my work is the idea of an encyclopedia of identity. It is best represented by the books, the series called 'To Place', which is extremely important to me. I have been working on this since 1988. It's really the heart. It is a series of books, each one of which adds to the whole in a way that alters the identity of it retroactively. So the first volume appears to be a book of drawings. The second book was about a completely different subject but in the same format. With the third volume people start to realize something: "Well, this looks like a series, so there must be some relationship. But I haven't a clue as to what it is."... The books are this very slow process of accumulation in the period of a life, my li

• Binding: Hardcover

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