![]() ![]() ![]() Kati Horna, Portrait of Leonora Carrington (1960/1987). ![]() New York’s Ruiz-Healy Art is currently presenting “ Kati Horna: In Motion ”-the first devoted exhibition of Horna’s work in the city.Ĭourtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art.īut her strange and beautiful photography may now be drawing new light. This haunting exhibition brings together photographs made from the 1930s into the 1960s and offers a window into Horna’s internal world-one replete with mysticism and loss shaped by a war-torn life. Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington's published and unpublished short stories many newly translated from their original French and Spanish is a terrific introduction to her. Kp boken The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington av Leonora Carrington (ISBN 9780997366648) hos. Horna was born Katalin Deutsch in Budapest in 1919 to an upper-class Jewish family ( Horna would marry the artist Jose Horna in Paris in the late 1930s). She lived amid the city’s intelligentsia and was a childhood friend of Robert Capa, studying photography alongside him. The turbulence of the era pulled her throughout the continent.Īs a teenager, she apprenticed herself to the celebrated photographer József Pesci, whose avant-garde imagery bridged advertising and Constructivist aesthetics.īy her twenties, Horna had moved to Berlin, befriending Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, and her compatriot László Moholy-Nagy. In 1933, she went to Paris, enmeshing herself in the Surrealist movement. ![]()
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