Daniel Horowitz
The Choleric Bell Barks at Noon, 2016
Oil on raw Linen and sewn textile
54 x 86 inches
Lonesome Messiah, 2015
oil on linen and textile
77 x 51 1/4 inches
Where The Earth Ends And The Void Begins, 2016
Oil on linen and textile
34 x 46 inches
The Phallus and the Meteor, 2016
Oil on raw and sewn fabric
36 x 24 inches
Flowered Garland of Sweet Liberty, 2016
oil on linen and textile
31 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches
Prosthetic God, 2016
oil on linen and textile
68 x 44 inches
Sweet Sleeping Draughts, 2016
oil on raw linen and sewn fabric
51 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches
The Persistence of Memory, 2016
Oil on raw linen and sewn fabric
76 x 46 inches
Signora di Catania, 2016
18 c, antique watercolor
9 x 5 3/4 inches
The Murdered Poet, 2016
collage on antique engraving
9 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches
Sailed a Swan a Dying Siren, 2016
collage
13 x 10 inches
Automne Malade, 2016
oil on 18 c. engraving
13 x 8 inches
Tribalphilia I, 2016
oil on paper
16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches
Tribalphilia II, 2016
oil on paper
16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches
Tribalphilia III, 2016
oil on paper
16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches
Tribalphilia IV, 2016
oil on paper
16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches
Eros and Aggression, 2016
oil on 18 c. engraving
11 3/4 x 16 inches
Bestiary, 2016
oil on 18 c. engraving
13 x 18 1/2 inches
Her Majesty's Pleasure, 2016
oil on 18 c. engraving
16 X 11 inches
Lawless Boy, 2016
oil on antique hand-colored engraving
12 X 10 inches
Monumentum after Jeff Koons' Balloon Sculpture II, 2016
oil on antique engraving
10 x 16 1/2 inches
Vanity Fair, 2016
Oil on antique hand-colored engraving
17 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches
Momentum, 2016
Oil on antique engraving
11 1/4 x 15 inches
Fille Armenienne, 2016
18 c, French hand-colored Etching
19 x 13 inches
Tillou Fine Art presents Totem & Taboo, an exhibition of new works by Daniel Horowitz. The exhibition features works on paper and paintings on raw linen stitched with textiles, juxtaposed with ethnographic artifacts from various private collections. Totem & Taboo will be accompanied by a series of salon-style interdisciplinary conversations and happenings with experts from a variety of fields, including art, anthropology, music and psychology.
Totem & Taboo – Horowitz’s second solo show in New York – draws from Sigmund Freud’s 1913 seminal book, Totem & Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Sa vages and Neurotics. Bringing together works that explore the parallels between the material legacy of animist cultures and psychoanalysis as a means of understanding the subconscious, Totem & Taboo investigates the nature of re-appropriation, the heritage of colonialism, and the West’s fascination with primitive art. The exhibition explores the ambiguity of the post-colonial identity in the Western world, while also paying homage to the influence of tribal art on modernism, and contemplating the existential crisis ushered by the onset of The Anthropocene.
More than referring to Freud’s essay, the exhibition ‘Totem & Taboo’ is a reflection on the visible and the invisible. There is no one particular key to look for or find, the viewer is free to walk through the rooms of this historical brownstone; though perhaps the most engaged visitor will find a key – the very key Alice found and used on various occasions. Be prepared: the same action rarely produces the same effect. In Daniel Horowitz’s world and logic, the Cheshire Cat and Schrödinger’s are close friends. Before taking off the veil, you never know what is hidden. Totems are stable things, unchangeable, whereas taboos change all the time: something usually forbidden unless it’s not.
- François Michaud, Head Curator, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris
To further explore the questions raised by the artist, topics such as planned obsolescence, cultural re-appropriation, and controversies in the fields of science and psychology will be investigated during monthly Saturday Salons, a platform for cross-disciplinary conversations and collaborations including lectures, performances, concerts, and panels.
SATURDAY SALONS
Salon 1 - Saturday, November 19, 2016 - 2 to 4PM
● Blues songs introduction by musician and artist Miles Pittman
● Lead Into Gold: Lawrence Weschler author of fiction; former New Yorker staff writer, and 2-time George Polk Award winner will talk about MONEY.
Salon 2 - Saturday, December 10, 2016 - 2 - 4PM
● Psychoanalysis of the image: leading psychoanalyst and cultural commentator Jamieson Webster , will be in conversation with Associate professor of philosophy at the New School, Chiara Boticci
● The Lady with a Thousand Faces: Performance by Swiss visual artist Clarina Bezzola
to discuss Ai Weiwei at Laundromat Deitch Projects, Ai Weiwei 2016: Roots and Branches at Mary Boone Gallery and Lisson Gallery, Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers and Sascha Braunig: Shivers at MoMA PS1, and Daniel Horowitz: Totem & Taboo at Tillou Fine Art
The Philosophy and Psychoanalysis of the Image: Psychoanalyst, Jamieson Wesbter in conversation with philosopher, Chiara Bottici
The Lady with a Thousand Faces: Performance by Swiss visual artist Clarina Bezzola, curated by Vida Mulec
Noted philosopher, Chiara Bottici, and author and psychoanalyst, Jamieson Webster, will engage in a conversation about the history of images. Is the image more real than reality, or the epitome of fiction? Is the image politically conservative or subversive? What is the difference between what is imaginary in an image and what is creative imagination? From Rousseau to Freud and Jung, from Guy Debord to Castoriadis and Jacques Lacan, this conversation will engage with the question of the image as it relates to art and other forms of culture.
Concurrent to the Totem & Taboo exhibition at Tillou Fine Art, there will also be a site-specific window installation by Daniel Horowitz on view at the
Art-in-Buildings located at 223-225 West 10th St., NYC, from November 8th – December 10th.
Lawrence Weschler's talk LEAD INTO GOLD, will trace the millennia-long passion for Wresting Something From Nothing, from Alchemy through Finance, which is to say from philosopher’s stones through subprime loans as part of a series of salons in conjunction with the exhibition TOTEM & TABOO.
Written by MARIE SALOMÉ PEYRONNEL