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Hanne Darboven behoorde tot de eerste generatie conceptuele kunstenaars. Voor haar waren getallen, classificatiesystemen en herhalingen middelen om te schrijven zonder te beschrijven. Haar seriële oeuvre heeft een romantisch, subjectief, bijna obsessief karakter en benadert de realiteit op een abstracte manier. Als een boekhouder probeerde Darboven dag na dag, vel na vel, boek na boek de tijd te overmeesteren of op z’n minst te meten in voor haarzelf functionele maar voor ons ondoorgrondelijke tijdsindelingen. Haar haast dwangneurotische werk vol cijfers, in woorden geschreven getallen en diagrammen omvat duizenden bladzijden.

www.ftn-books.com has some important Darboven titles available.

Hanne Darboven

Darboven room

ARCO Foundation Collection, Madrid
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Dia:Beacon, Beacon / NY
Dia:Chelsea, New York
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
MADRE, Neapel
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Bundeskunstsammlung, Bonn
Schaulager, Basel
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) in Gent

An impressive list and far from complete is this list of Museums that have a work or works by Hanne Darboven in their collection. Hanne Darboven was one of the most extreme Conceptual Artist from the last century. Making works with text, letters and numbers…always written and notated by hand in sequences reminding of the sequential works by the Minimal Art artists, by whom she was influenced ( LeWitt and Judd).

The calendar sequence has consistently formed the basis for the majority of her installations, and the ‘daily arithmetic’ consisting of checksums came to replace the year’s calendrical progression according to a complex and challenging mathematical logic. Always written out by hand, her paperwork thus comprised rows and rows of ascending and descending numbers, u-shapes, grids, line-notations and boxes. Employing this neutral language of numbers and using pen, pencil, the typewriter, and graph paper as materials, she began to make simple linear constructions of numbers that she called Konstruktionen.

Whenever you encounter a Darboven, the detail is of less importance. It is the pure extreme large scale that impresses , which is the same reason that so little of her works are on permanent display. When you encounter one of Darboven’s works…. Take your time and experience the space and the walls, covered with her works from top to bottom and never forget it anymore.

Some nice publications available at www.ftn-books.com