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Untitled, by Hanne Darboven, ink, 1968

Untitled

Hanne Darboven

1968

ink

paper

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

Dominant colour

Overview

Untitled is a 1968 ink by Hanne Darboven, held at Museum of Modern Art.

Who painted this?
Hanne Darboven
When & what style?
1968
Where can I see it?
Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This image shows a piece of graph paper covered in ink. There are lots of numbers and symbols, like plus signs and letters, all over the page. It looks like someone wrote all this by hand. In the top left corner, there's a bunch of writing that's hard to read. It seems like it might be some kind of code or math problem. The rest of the page is filled with rows and columns of numbers and symbols. It's pretty dense and looks like it might be some kind of puzzle or game. The whole thing is pretty mysterious, but it's definitely an interesting piece of art. If you want to learn more about this kind of thing, you might want to check out the work of Hanne Darboven.

About the artist

Portrait of Hanne Darboven
Artist

Hanne Darboven

Hanne Darboven (29 April 1941 – 9 March 2009) was a German conceptual artist, best known for her large-scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten tables of numbers.

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