Hopefully you are able to catch Hanne Darboven magnificent exhibition at the DIA-Beacon before it's closed (this coming April) for two years in a restoration effort. The exhibit is a visual treat with twisted pop cultural references, religious symbols, and Ritchie Tennenbaum-like mannequins in track suits. Darboven also writes lengthy notes and musings on her photographs, datebooks and fairytale-esque renderings. At times you feel overwhelmed by the mass body of work, but, ultimately, you feel amazed and the exhaustion feels positive.
A bit from the DIA website:
Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 consists of 1,590 wall-mounted panels of uniform size and format and nineteen objects. It traces one hundred years of history via a miscellany of images and texts that range from postcards to art reproductions, portraits of film stars, and the covers of weekly magazines. Many bear handwritten notes and quotations. All of this, of course, is about order and length of time.
Over the past thirty years, this German artist has created a vast body of work based on time as registered by history and by memory alike. Beginning with the date, whose numbers she manipulates into a temporal and chronological system, Darboven has in Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 constructed an encompassing, encyclopedic archive that fuses public history and collective memory with personal experience.
Hanne Darboven was born in 1941 in Munich, Germany. In 1965 she graduated from the Hochschule fnr Bildende Kunst in Hamburg, where she had studied painting. She lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.
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