Art Taaalkssss: David Horvitz & Cassidy Toner

David Horvitz, feed crows feed crows feed crows feed crows, 2021, printed poster; installation view exhibition (re)connecting.earth, Berlin, Curated by Bernard Vienat, 2021 Photo: Christina Huber. Courtesy of The Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin

Cassidy Toner lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2014 and in 2018 completed her Master in Fine Arts at the Institut Kunst HGK FHNW. She is currently represented by GALERIE PHILIPPZOLLINGER. Toner has a dog named Boh and enjoys eating pickle chips in her spare time. 

David Horvitz was born in Los Angeles, where he currently lives and works. He studied at the University of California and at the Waseda University in Tokyo. He obtained a MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, in 2010.
Witty and poetic, the work of David Horvitz meddles with systems of language, time and networks.  Eschewing categorization, his expansive, nomadic body of work traverses the forms of photographs, artist books, performances, the Internet, mail art, sound, rubber stamps, gastronomy, and natural environments. His work examines questions of distance between places, people and time in order to test the possibilities of appropriating, undermining or even erasing these distances. Using image, text and objects, his works circulate and operate independently of himself, penetrating ever more effectively the intimate sphere. When encountering his works– in the postal system, libraries, or the airport lost-and-found services– our attention to the infinitesimal, inherent loopholes and alternative logics, and the imaginary comes to the fore. As lullabies imprinted in our heads, Horvitz deploys art as both objects of contemplation and as viral or systemic tools to effect change on a personal scale. Horvitz makes fictions that insert themselves surreptitiously into the real. His work was exhibited in venues such as: High Line Art, New York (upcoming); MoMA, New York; New Museum, New York; SF MOMA, San Francisco; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; HangarBicocca, Milan; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Albertinum, SDK, Dresden; La Criée centre d’art contemporaine, Rennes; S.M.A.K, Gent; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Musée d’Art Contemporain Avignon; Crac Alsace, Altkirsch; Brooklyn Museum, among others. In 2016 he founded Porcino Gallery in Berlin, a miniature-sized space annexed within the ChertLüdde premises.