'Cross-section man' and 'Cross-section woman' 1968

Location: Auditorium, floor 0 

Two months before his death in1968 stained-glass artist, painter, sculptor and graphic artist Lex Horn (1916) experienced his first meeting with the Art Committee of the Technische Hogeschool in Eindhoven. His description of this is food for thought: "It was a lively, intelligent discussion in which every word was perfectly understandable. Yet I felt increasingly foreign in this environment, got confused more and more. What were these people talking about? About art, yes, and (rejected sculptures started being put on the table) in a certain way they did not have an uncritical opinion on it. However, it was just as if their hearts, their feelings were left out of the equation. A great many things were known, seen, but even the feeling seemed rationalized, subtly rubricated, standardized."

Still, everything worked out well: the TH purchased two wall hangings by Horn, which belong to his best, later work. Thanks to the monumental character and their colorfulness they splendidly bear up under the confrontation with their concrete environment.

See also: Vubis database

Links Lex Horn
http://www.tue.nl/cursor/bastiaan/jaargang44/cursor26/rubrieken/r_c_kunstwerk.htm