April 10 – May 17, 2025

Fritz Horstman: Raking Light

Planthouse

In Person Viewing:

55 West 28th St.
New York, NY 10001

Online Viewing:

https://planthouse.net/pages/future-exhibition-1

Thursday, April 10, 6 – 8PM

Fritz Horstman’s exhibition Raking Light explores the interplay between light, shadows, landscapes, and voids. Viewers are invited into a world that feels both familiar and elusive. The exhibition includes new works on paper, sculpture, and video.

Horstman’s Folded Cyanotypes series transforms two-dimensional paper into evocative pieces that carry the memory of light, three-dimensional forms, and manual manipulation. Created by folding cyanotype-coated paper, exposing it to sunlight, and then flattening it, these works reveal a striking contrast: areas touched by light develop into vivid blue, while untouched sections remain white. They are, at once, sculptures, prints, and drawings, that also continue the tradition of camera-less photography. Horstman considers them two-dimensional artifacts of a three-dimensional gesture. Included in the exhibition is a just-finished portfolio entitled Folded Cyanotypes Progression, comprising 28 individual Folded Cyanotypes, each differing by one fold with the paper on either side of it. Hung as a grid, Horstman has also sequenced them as an animation.