White Body Fan I think the following quote explains the description of Horn's artwork the best, "While Rebbecca Horn's more recent work has been determined by a poetical deployment of mechanical constructions, this object – a metal construction measuring 300 cm in diameter – belongs to the film 'Performances II’, 1973, in which Rebbecca Horn was preoccupied still with extending her own body into space". (www.medienkunstnetz.de/.../img/data/373/bild.jpg)
now i am going to describe the content of this art work in my own words, or more or less, i am going to tell you what i take from this piece of art. The outfit looks to me like something you would see in a mental institution, and the fact that she has built herself a "fan" that looks more to me like wings makes me question weather or not she is attempting to fly. But like i have said in the past i do not take from the "art work" what the artist really wants me to i guess.
These are a few of Horn's other art pieces that remind me of this one because they are also body extensions. "Besides the 'White Body Fan’, body extensions also figured in the performances 'Einhorn' ('Unicorn'), 'Kopf-Extension' ('Head Extension'), 'Bleistiftmaske' ('Pencil Mask'), 'Meine Hand kann fliegen' ('My Hand Can Fly'), 'Gavin', 'Hahnenmaske' (Cockfeather Mask'), 'Fingerhandschuhe' ('Finger Gloves') and 'Kakadu-Maske' ('Cockatoo Mask'). She produced a variation on this work with the action 'Mechanischer Körperfächer' ('Mechanical Body Fan') in 1974". (www.medienkunstnetz.de/.../
Now i have not seen all of these pieces of work but i have seen the 'pencil mask' which is a cone that she puts over her face and 'finger gloves' which is a glove that has gigantic fingers on it that are like several feet long.
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