Peter Horn


Exhibition Checklist

 

Danger is at the gates of town, 1968

cotton, wool.

235 x 100 cm

This tapestry depicts the wooden horse in front of the gates of Troy in Homer’s Illiad.


REHPAi, 1980

cotton, wool

100 x 129 cm

This tapestry is woven from a drawing made by my daughter when she was 4 years old.


Water levels for Kerkyra, 1983

cotton, wool.

154 x 194 cm

This tapestry was woven from one of my own collage-series “An imaginary journey around the world”.


Easter Island, 1984

cotton, wool.

80 x 65 cm

This tapestry was woven from one of my own collage-series “An imaginary journey around the world”.


Greek coast, 1985

cotton, wool.

157 x 196 cm

This tapestry was woven from one of my own collage-series “An imaginary journey around the world”.

I wove the tapestry before I visited Greece and found quite the same scenery there.


Don’t be afraid, General!, 1989

cotton, wool

250 x 100 cm

This tapestry was made from a collage using a newspaper photograph and a detail from a painting by J. A. Dominique Ingres.


Lisi Jar 1, 1988

cotton, wool

250 x 125 cm

The design (collage and drawing) for this tapestry was made in Poland at a symposium in 1987. Lisi Jar is a place at Poland’s Baltic Sea coast. 


Lisi Jar 3, 1991

cotton and wool

203 x 196 cm

The design (painting) for this tapestry was made in Poland at a symposium in 1990. We were asked to include  scenery from the surrounding area and to use the Polish national colours red and white.


Design for Date line, 1971

collage and drawing

22 x 28 cm

This is one of the collages from the series “An imaginary journey around the world“


Date line, 1990

cotton, wool

150 x 196 cm

From the series “An imaginary journey around the world“.


Mafia (business as usual), 1986

119 x 152 cm

cotton, wool

From the series “An imaginary journey around the world“.


Lighter than air, 1987

cotton, wool

300 x 198 cm

I made the design for this tapestry in Canada in 1985. It deals with one of my favourite subjects: Taking off the ground (into the air, later into the space).


Mercurius 2, 1998

cotton, wool

198 x 198 cm

Based on a NASA photograph and collage.


Ring of Jupiter 2, 2000

cotton, wool

200 x 197 cm

Based on a NASA photograph, own colouring.


Eros 2000 Mar 6, 2000

cotton, wool

20 x 20 cm

Based on a NASA internet  photograph.


Ranger 7 – the last 15 seconds, parts 1 and 2, 2001

cotton, wool.

100 x 100 cm each

Based on NASA photographs. An event lasting for 15 seconds, but woven over more than one year.


Ranger 7 – the last 15 seconds, parts 3 and 4, 2001

cotton, wool.

100 x 100 cm each


Lunar afternoon, 2000

cotton, wool

60 x 58 cm

Based on a NASA photograph. One of  my most “romantic” tapestries.


MARS – Kasei Vallis, 2005

cotton, wool

190 x 380 cm

Based on a NASA photograph, own colouring. Consists of twenty single pieces, 45 x 40 cm each.



Going for a space walk in Jupiter’s umbra, 2006

cotton, wool

150 x 380 cm

Based on a NASA photograph, own colouring. Four parts, three are 100 x 100 cm, one is 100 x 80 cm