Screen printing. 1982. Hand signed and numbered lower left, 70/100, "HD". Dimensions image approx 60*40 cm. Professionally framed, perfect condition, dimensions frame ca 67,5*47,5 cm.
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Biography
Hanne Darboven (1941-2009)
German artist Hanne Darboven studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (after a brief period studying piano). From 1966 she lives in New York for two years, befriending Sol LeWitt and Joseph Kosuth (the latter exhibiting his first conceptual work in 1965). She makes construction-like drawings with calendar dates, addition and number sums according to self-selected mathematical models. In New York, she finds out what she is going to pursue as an artist: the visualization of time in all its forms. (https://www.petzel.com/artists/hanne-darboven)
Between1975 and 1999 Darboven works on Schreibzeit; a 32-volume book of codified texts and number sequences, texts on philosophical and historical topics. Beginning in 1980, she starts converting number sequences from Schreibzeit into musical notes, which she has musicians arrange for various instruments.
In the exhibition Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983, on view in New York from 1980 through 1983, Darboven presents 1,590 photographs, covers of magazines such as Der Spiegel depicting war and brutality, images of Hollywood celebrities, and tourist postcards depicting an idyllic image of prewar Germany. In doing so, she tells the political and cultural history of society as well as her own. It seems that Darboven was constantly aware of the passage of time; almost compulsively she tried to write down every event (this is evident in her diaries, which she often kept from hour to hour).
“Darboven is a conceptual artist who uses her numbers, classification systems and repetitions to write without describing. Her serial oeuvre has a romantic, subjective, almost obsessive character and approaches reality in an abstract way. Like an accountant, Darboven tried day after day, sheet after sheet, book after book to overpower or at least measure time in divisions of time that were functional to herself but unfathomable to us.” ( https://smak.be/nl/kunstenaars/hanne-darboven)
Information from:
https://www.diaart.org/exhibition/exhibitions-projects/hanne-darboven-kulturgeschichte-18801983-exhibition
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanne_Darboven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnJ15MUrsaY
