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Conceptual Art Darboven, Hanne
31 offset lithographs in: *Lu…
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363
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Conceptual Art Darboven, Hanne
31 offset lithographs in: *Lu…
See original version (German)
Estimate €700 - €1,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Conceptual Art
Darboven, Hanne
31 offset lithographs in: *Lustig ist das Zigeunerleben*. 1979. Each on smooth vellum. Sheet dimensions: 42 x 29.8 cm each. Includes the title page with colophon. Loose in original cardboard folder. – Upper sheets with barely noticeable scuffing to the corners. Overall in very good condition. Excellent, high-contrast and vivid prints.
Schellmann March 1980. – One of 250 copies. – First edition of the portfolio self-published by the artist, Hamburg 1980. - Hanne Darboven, a major pioneer of Conceptual Art in Germany, explores the passage of time, the world’s systems of order and the power of writing in her strictly conceptual, yet at the same time highly personal and immediate art. By neither painting nor drawing, but instead conceiving, writing and organising her art with radical consistency, her dense interweaving of number sequences and notations results in a spatialisation and visualisation of time in its various forms – as the span of a life, as time spent working and writing, and as historical time. With *Lustig ist das Zigeunerleben* (The Gypsy Life Is Fun), she uses the title of a well-known verse from a German children’s song to create a complex, artistic and political reflection on social clichés, historical marginalisation and perception, playing with repetitive structures, text fragments and cultural references.
31 offset lithographs. Each on smooth wove paper. With the title page including imprint. Loose in the original cardboard folder. – Upper leaves with barely noticeable bumps at the corners. Very good overall. Excellent, high-contrast and strong impressions. - One of 250 copies. - First edition of the portfolio, self-published by the artist in Hamburg in 1980. - Hanne Darboven, a great pioneer of conceptual art in Germany, examines the passage of time, the systems of order in the world and the power of writing in her strictly conceptual, yet at the same time very personal and direct art. By neither painting nor drawing, but rather thinking, writing and organising her art with radical consistency, her dense interweaving of rows of numbers and notations results in a spatialisation and visualisation of time in its various forms – as the span of a life, as time spent working and writing, and as historical time. With “Lustig ist das Zigeunerleben”, she creates a complex, artistic and political reflection on social clichés, historical marginalisation and perception, playing with repetitive structures, text fragments and cultural references under the title of a well-known verse from a German children’s song.
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