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Kati Horna Mexican, 1912-2000
Subida a la Catedral, Barcelona, 1938/1960gelatin silver (photomontage)9 x 6.6 in
22.9 x 16.8 cmAs stated by Dr. Salomon Grimberg, 'Horna's finest work, her portraits and Surrealist photographs, speak about the intuitive person that she was. In Subida a la Catedral, Barcelona, the right...As stated by Dr. Salomon Grimberg, "Horna's finest work, her portraits and Surrealist photographs, speak about the intuitive person that she was. In Subida a la Catedral, Barcelona, the right side of a young woman's sad face deludes the eye into believing that her skin is built with bricks. In contrast, her eye, appearing imprisoned behind a barred window, silently watches the stairs for the faithful climbing toward the cathedral. In one photomontage, Horna captured the fear on the streets of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War."Provenance
Kati Horna; by descent to the artist's granddaughterExhibitions
Kati Horna: In Motion, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, 2023Kati Horna, Jeu De Paume, Paris, France and Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; curators: Angeles Alonso Espinosa and José Antonio Rodríguez, 2013 (catalogue)
Women Surrealists in Mexico, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, July 19- September 7, 2003; traveling exhibition to Osaka, Suntory Museum, September 13- October 19, 2003; Nagoya City Art Museum, November 1- December 21, 2003 and The Museum of Art, Kochi, January 4- February 22, 2004; curator: Masayo Nonaka, 2003/2004 (catalogue)
Los sentidos de las cosas: El mundo de Kati y José Horna, Sala de colecciones especiales, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City; curated by Claudia Barrón, Karen Cordero and Norah Horna, 2004 (catalogue)
Surrealismo entre Viejo y Nuevo Mundo, Centro atlántico de arte moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain; curator: Juan Manuel Bonet for Fundación Mapfre, 1990 (catalogue)
La Femme et le Surréalisme, Museé Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, 1988 (catalogue)
Literature
Wyma, Chloe. “Kati Horna, Ruiz-Healy Art | New York,” Artforum, June 1, 2023, (illustrated).
Originally published in Spain Libre-Studio magazine. Its caption read La mujer española antes de la revolución, or “Spanish women before the revolution.”
Mejorada, Alicia Sánchez. “El legado de Kati Horna.” In Alebrije, Monstruo de Papel, suplemento de Artes de México, 2001.
Publications
Exhibition catalogue, Kati Horna, Jeu De Paume, Paris, France and Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; curators: Angeles Alonso Espinosa and José Antonio Rodríguez, 2013 p. 103 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Los sentidos de las cosas: El mundo de Kati y José Horna, Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2003, p. 58 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Women Surrealists in Mexico, Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art, 2003, p. 167, no. 114 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, El surrealismo entre viejo y nuevo mundo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, 1989, p. 214 (illustrated).
E. Billetter & J. Pierre, La Femme et le Surréalisme, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 1987, p. 212 (illustrated).
