Hanne Darboven, Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983), 1980-83. Installation view at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York. Lannan Foundation; long-term loan. Photo: Florian Holzherr.
Hanne Darboven, Hommage à Picasso, Installation view
Photo: © Mathias Schormann
Copyright © Deutsche Guggenheim
"Ein Jahr: 1970", 2007
"Ein Jahr: 1970", 2007, Silkscreen Print on Zanders Classic 115 g, 43 sheets and one Index, each 21,0 cm x 29,7 cm, in custom made folder, printer: Thomas Sanmann, Hamburg, bookbinder: Klaus Winterscheidt, Hamburg, signed and numbered
Bio
Hanne Darboven was a German conceptual artist, who created huge volumes of indexical work based on the concepts of time, mathematics, and chronicling history. Darboven's work often created a tactile representation of time, removing the abstractness of its dimensionality, in exchange for a more complicated, physical abstraction. Historical and cultural issues imperative to Germany's history are revisited in an all-inclusive, truthful and unbiased manner; embedded in Darboven's organized mass of mathematical drawings and images.
Quotations
" Political, poetical, historical and biographical themes, however, were always integrated also – a tight interleaving of life and work characterizes Hanne Darboven’s specifically subjective point of departure that distinguishes her from other exponents of minimal art of her generation. Her collections of source material amounted to shelves full of folders, to complete musical pieces composed from notes derived from her system of mathematical constructs. "
http://cgi.klosterfelde.de/user-cgi-bin/artists/?s1=Hanne+Darboven&s2=02-text
" Although she lived in almost total solitude, her work became part of a collective effort to replace the discrete art object with Conceptual Art, grounded in ideas and actions...Her books and mounted images, painstakingly handwritten, embody not only an abstract span of time but also the actual time of the artist’s labour."
Ring, Nancy. "MoMA | The Collection | Hanne Darboven. (German, 1941-2009)." MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art. Grove Art Online, Oxford Press, 2009. Web. 12 Mar. 2011. .
My work relates to Darboven's in its treatment of the element of time and measurement. I am trying to portray time in alternative ways using digital video and obvious representations. The measurement of the time I am interested in deals with issues of chronicling and indexing, based on the subject being measured, but also the device used to measure the subject. I am trying to explore artists who have created work conceptualizing time and measurements, so I can develop new approaches to producing work relative to my concepts. I would like to employ an additional level of media separate from the video that portrays the data collected during the filming process, editing process, and maybe even viewing process. Presentations like those of Hanne Darboven are very inspiring, due to the level of determinacy and overall work.
Interview
Interview with Dan Adler, who published Cultural History: 1880-1983 (1983) , an edition of the One Work Series by Afterall Books.
http://www.magentamagazine.com/1/features/adler-interview
Gallery
http://cgi.klosterfelde.de/user-cgi-bin/artists/?s1=Hanne+Darboven
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