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Hanne Darboven--Writing Time

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Hanne Darboven--Writing Time explores the conceptual artist Hanne Darboven's unique approach to marking time through her personal and methodical mark-making on paper. The book traces three pivotal phases of her artistic practice, starting with her Konstruction drawings created during her late 1960s New York stay, featuring abstract transversal and mirroring patterns. It then examines how Darboven transformed her drawing practice into formulas encapsulating specific dates and durations, expressed through calligraphic lines or drawn boxes. The volume concludes with an analysis of her 1996 installation Inventions that Have Changed Our World, which chronicles the twentieth century day-by-day via her numerical formulas, honouring key inventors each decade. This overview reveals Darboven's deeply personal narrative that redefines the concept of time beyond traditional linearity.
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An investigation of conceptual artist Hanne Darboven’s artistic practice and her highly personal mark-making as a form of marking time on paper

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An investigation of conceptual artist Hanne Darboven’s artistic practice and her highly personal mark-making as a form of marking time on paper

Hanne Darboven (1941–2009) is best known for her immersive installations of individually framed sheets filled with written formulations and collaged images. Approaching Darboven’s life and work through the lens of drawing, this succinct survey is organised around three watershed moments in the artist’s practice.

It begins with examples of Darboven’s Konstruction drawings—abstract works based in transversal and mirroring strategies—made during her two-year stay in New York in the late 1960s. The next section maps how Darboven adapted her drawing practice into formulas that calculate specific dates and durations into a single number, which the artist represented as anything from a series of calligraphic lines to a set of consecutively drawn boxes. The book concludes with a close look at Inventions that Have Changed Our World, an installation from 1996 that documents each day of the twentieth century according to Darboven’s formulas and assigns an inventor, ranging from Johannes Gutenberg to the Wright brothers, to represent each of the century’s ten decades.

This engaging overview highlights how Darboven's work offers a deeply idiosyncratic accounting of art and life that challenges time as a linear and objective measure.

Distributed for the Menil Collection

Exhibition Schedule

The Menil Collection, Houston
(October 29, 2023–February 11, 2024)

Series: Menil Drawing Institute Series

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ISBN: 9780300273298

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 100 color +b-w illus.

Contributors:

  • With Dieter Schwarz

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 144

About the Author

Kelly Montana is assistant curator at Menil Drawing Institute at the Menil Collection. Dieter Schwarz is an art historian and the former director of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur.

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