Rockne Krebs: Horses

December 24, 2024
Today is Rockne Krebs’ birthday, born in 1938, he would have been 86. In celebration of his birthday and his art, we looked to his childhood photo album and a frequent subject in his art, horses. The photographs are of Rockne and his mother, Lorine Krebs in 1940, when he was 2 years old, in 1941, and in 1943 when he was 5 years old.

“I’m not a technologically based artist,” he pleads. “People grab hold of the fact that I use a high tech tool, but it’s not different from what I was doing before. I’ve always been fascinated by the dematerialization of objects. My mother told me that my favorite plaything for the first three years of my life was a little transparent toy.” ~ Jane Addams Allen, The Washington Times, Rockne Krebs, DECEMBER 23, 1983. Another quote from this article “Duchamp on the Range. A Robert Redford look-alike, whose talent is legendary.”
* The little transparent toy was a horse *

Instagram reel https://tinyurl.com/bdz5s487

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