Hanne Darboven | Ausstellung Mit 6 Filmprojektoren Nach Büchern Über 1968

Hanne Darboven

Ausstellung Mit 6 Filmprojektoren Nach Büchern Über 1968

Monchengladbach, Germany: Städtisches Museum, 1969

16.5 x 20.5 cm

Edition of 440 numbered copies

A cardboard box containing two booklets and a gridded drawing pad, issued as an exhibition catalogue for solo show of Darboven's which ran from February 25 to April 7, 1969. With text (in German) by curator and museum director Johannes Cladders.

"The reader may, for example, turn to box number six, the catalogue that accompanied Hanne Darboven’s 1968 exhibition. This white laminated cardboard box was printed with an enlargement of Darboven’s distinctive handwriting. It contained a booklet with information about the exhibition—the artist’s first at a museum—along with two short essays by Cladders, six cards reproducing Darboven’s mathematical calculations, and a blank graph-paper notebook, possibly to be used by the recipient of the box catalogue for their own calculations. For those interested in Darboven’s early career, this is an invaluable resource, a sort of treasure trove; Cladders’s lucid writing on her work and explanation of her eccentric arithmetic provided a crucial introduction to her methods and goals. His text holds up today, even after so much ink has been spilled in the elucidation of Darboven’s concepts and constructions.”

- Lucy Ives