Rebecca Horn is a German artist, born in 1944; she is well-known for the various types of media: performance art, installation art, film, body sculptures, and modifications in her artworks. It was around 1968, the college she attended Hamburg academy to study art. However, she suffered in some cases of lung poisoning from her unprotected work that handled with glass fiber; For the most part, she was hospitalized and had to change mediums from polyester and fiberglass to softer material. Around 1971, Horn worked as a performance artist, and she began producing body sculptures, body extensions, or prosthetics; she developed the first kinetic sculptures, and each material Horn use in her sculpture gives mystical spiritual imagery. She also worked on full-length films that featured some of her sculptures that talks about her obsession with imperfect bodies and balance between figures and objects.
acrylic on paper paper: 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches (40 x 30 cm)
framed: 24 3/8 x 19 5/8 inches (62 x 50 cm) RH-1069
In the first performance with the body-extensions, she wanted to explore the equilibrium between the human body and space; When she changed to the kinetic sculptures, they were her artistic expressions, it wasn’t just sculptured on its own, but rather the movement, rhythm, and sound. It represented in a historical aspect rather than it’s architectural or spatial. It represented in a historical aspect rather than it’s architectural or spatial. It reflects on the aftermath of WWII, it was difficult for Horn and her family to live around because of Nazi’s destruction, the Germans were hated, so she learned to speak French and English to avoid suspicions. Eventually, Romanian governess introduced drawing to Horn, drawing felt like it was a form of communication. From that experience from being isolated, judged, and hospitalized, there some hints in her artworks that express macabre or exaggerated imagery that is expressing its own emotion, like its own being. Some of her famous works below where Horn is modeling with her sculptures:
“Finger Gloves, 1972”. Tate Collection (2002) 
“White Body Fan, 1972”. Tate Collection (2002) 
“Pencil Mask 1972 “. Tate Collection (2002)
Rebecca Horns is currently living and works in Paris, France and Berlin, Germany. As a tribute for Rebecca’s artworks, there’s an exhibition that features her famous artworks that dwell more in Rebecca’s Horn theme about the human body metamorphizes or evolve, called the “Theatre of Metamorphoses” located in The Centre Pompidou-Metz museum in Lorraine, France.
Ever since the artist presentation was mentioned at the beginning of the semester, I decided to take a sneak peek and see what kind of artists is there to see. Immediately, when I saw Rebecca Horn’s name, and I decided to research more about her, that was when I was so fascinated by how she expresses her artworks, it brings out a lot of character and charm. Especially in her paintings and sketches, it reminded me of how I draw or sketch some of my works.
Work Cited:
http://www.dreamideamachine.com/en/?p=48191
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/horn-rebecca/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/rebecca-horn/