Irma Blank
Paperworks from the Museion Collection
16 Oct 2017 - 23 Sep 2018
Image: Irma Blank, Radical Writings (S chrift-Atem-Übung 2 vom 27/8 ’89), 1989, Fondazione Museion, Collezione Archivio di Nuova Scrittura. Foto: Augustin Ochsenreiter
Foto: Luca Meneghel
Foto: Luca Meneghel
Foto: Luca Meneghel
IRMA BLANK
Paperworks from the Museion Collection
16 October 2017 – 23 September 2018
Curated by Andreas Hapkemeyer
More tha 50 works in ink or watercolour on paper present the intriguing oeuvre of the German artist, whose script-based aesthetic does away with the legible word, feauturing poetic subdivisions of fictitioustext into lines and blocks, as we know it in books, newspapers and other publications. The meditative spirit typical of her works is reinforced by the intense use of the colour blue. The Irma Blank exhibition in Museion continues the exploration of the works in the Archivio di Nuova Scrittura which are part of the collection.
Irma Blank (Celle, Germany, 1934, lives and works in Milan) uses the written word as a tool for ituitive cognition, returning verbal language to the status of “Urzeichen”, primordial signs. In a career spanning more than forty years Blank has exhibited in museums, galleries and international events such as documenta in Kassel (1977), the Venice Biennale (1978, 2017), the Quadriennale in Rome (2005), the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2010), Kunsthaus Hamburg ( 2016) and MAMbo Bologna (2016).
Paperworks from the Museion Collection
16 October 2017 – 23 September 2018
Curated by Andreas Hapkemeyer
More tha 50 works in ink or watercolour on paper present the intriguing oeuvre of the German artist, whose script-based aesthetic does away with the legible word, feauturing poetic subdivisions of fictitioustext into lines and blocks, as we know it in books, newspapers and other publications. The meditative spirit typical of her works is reinforced by the intense use of the colour blue. The Irma Blank exhibition in Museion continues the exploration of the works in the Archivio di Nuova Scrittura which are part of the collection.
Irma Blank (Celle, Germany, 1934, lives and works in Milan) uses the written word as a tool for ituitive cognition, returning verbal language to the status of “Urzeichen”, primordial signs. In a career spanning more than forty years Blank has exhibited in museums, galleries and international events such as documenta in Kassel (1977), the Venice Biennale (1978, 2017), the Quadriennale in Rome (2005), the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2010), Kunsthaus Hamburg ( 2016) and MAMbo Bologna (2016).