Hanne Darboven
German, 1941–2009
Seven Panels and Index
INV-9423
Hanne Darboven
German, 1941–20091973
Seven Panels and Index
Hanne Darboven German, 1941–2009 →graphitedrawings (visual works)
Date
1973
Medium
Graphite and gray ink on white wove paper
Dimensions
Each panel: 183 × 183 cm (72 × 72 in.); Index: 109 × 183 cm (43 × 72 in.); Installed: 381 × 767 cm (150 × 302 in.); 381 × 767.1 cm (150 × 302 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Barbara Neff Smith Memorial Fund, Barbara Neff Smith and Solomon H. Smith Purchase Fund
Hanne Darboven is known for ordered notations that utilize numbers, particularly permutations of the calendar, as their systematic focus and structure. In the 1970s, she introduced transcriptions of texts (including those by Charles Baudelaire and Jean-Paul Sartre), diagrams, and abstract marks into her work. Monumental in scale, Seven Panels and Index exemplifies the artist’s practice of covering ordinary composition paper with undulating lines associated with handwriting; here her lines resemble the cursive form of the lowercase letter l. Darboven’s compulsively detailed, laboriously produced script emphasizes the process of mark making by evoking text while remaining abstract, and explores the passage of time as it is experienced both historically and personally.
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