Hanne Darboven, 2005. Photo: © Michael Danner
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Hanne Darboven‘s studio, 2005. Photo: © Michael Danner
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Hanne Darboven, Hommage ŕ Picasso, Installation view, Deutsche Guggenheim. Photo: Mathias Schormann. © Deutsche Guggenheim
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Hanne Darboven, Hommage ŕ Picasso, Installation view, Deutsche Guggenheim. Photo: Mathias Schormann. © Deutsche Guggenheim
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Hanne Darboven, Opus 60, Symphony for 120 players
Junge Sinfonie Berlin, Conductor: Aurélien Bello
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Hanne
Darboven’s installation Hommage
ŕ Picasso, a commissioned work for the Deutsche
Guggenheim, documents the last decade of the twentieth
century on 9,720 of the artist’s signature sheets of paper with
handwritten numeric writing. At the Deutsche
Bank’s VIP Lounge at Frieze New York 2012 a selection of 12
panels is shown. They encompass the year 1990, each sheet presents a
single day with the date handwritten four times vertically, and each
panel is comprised of all the sheets for a single month. Visitors to
the lounge also have the possibility to listen to Darboven’s Opus
60, a symphony for 120 players. In its lounge at Frieze New
York, Deutsche Bank shows selected works from the corporate collection
by artists like Gerhard Richter, John Cage, Christian Marclay, Xaviera
Simmons, and Jennie C. Jones that are all dedicated to the theme of
music.
German artist Hanne Darboven (b. 1941, d. 2009) is a pioneer of
conceptual art. In the 1960s she developed her own conceptual approach
by using the neutral language of numerals. In the late 1970s, the
aspect of music and composition entered Darboven’s work by creating a
system to produce musical scores based on calendar dates and her own
personal number systems. Her passionate focus for music remained for
the rest of her live. Hanne Darboven’s Opus 60 is
part of her major work Hommage ŕ Picasso. The world
premiere of Opus 60 took place on 3 February 2006
in Berlin in Deutsche Bank’s covered courtyard on Unter den Linden on
the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Hanne Darboven:
Hommage ŕ Picasso at the Deutsche Guggenheim.
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