JONATHAN HOROWITZ
«Time, Life, People – Jonathan Horowitz at Kunsthalle St.Gallen»

The New York artist Jonathan Horowitz works in different media at the same time. In the foreground in each case is a conceptual idea, which he translates into atmospheric images and situations. A huge mural in Broadway letters plays with the aesthetics of Hollywood and stars. Jonathan Horowitz often uses films, actors or fictional identities as a kind of popular fund. The original message of these quotations is always undermined and expanded. In the work The Soul of Tammi Terrell, shown for the first time at Kunsthalle St.Gallen, film images are switched in parallel on two monitors. The soul singer Tammi Terrell once achieved pop fame with Ain't no mountain high enough. She died shortly afterwards at the young age of 24. In his cinematic installation, Horowitz uses film images from Hollywood to address Tammi Terrell's ambivalent position in cinema.
 

Jonathan Horowitz (*1966, New York/USA) is a New York-based artist working in video, sculpture, sound installation and photography.