Since the beginning of the 1970s, Rebecca Horn has explored sculpture, installation, performance, drawing and film as fields of charged energy. Her visionary and emotionally intense imagery is the result of tremendous precision in the staging of her works – kinetic sculptures that suggest a surrealist legacy. Horn’s machines evoke a magnetic flow of charged energy and a disturbing theatre of obsession, desire and the turbulence of passion. In Cutting Through the Past (1992–93), five old doors are installed on a platform, creating a visionary yet domestic architecture evocative of pain. At the centre of the platform, a pointed metal rod is balanced on a metal stand, which moves on its axis so that the rod continuously rotates through 360°, penetrating at each turn the edges of the doors, as if carving into them with an incisive and cruel gesture, rich with erotic implications.

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