{"product_id":"quartett-88","title":"Quartett 88","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTime is central to Hanne Darboven's work. Historical records and chronological systems are the primary vehicles in her career-long exploration of time and memory. Writer and curator Okwui Enwezor argued that her archival practice is not simply a repository of information but a structure of historical consciousness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished to accompany Darboven's exhibition at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (1990), this artist's book structures its numerical timepieces around four women who marked history: Marie Curie, Rosa Luxemburg, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. In other words, Darboven’s feminine pantheon. These figures provide historical points of reference, yet the true subject of the work is the structure of time itself. Their individual lives become structural elements within a larger temporal system, where personal history is situated alongside scientific discovery, political transformation, and cultural production.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the centre of Darboven's complex mathematical operations lies the year 1988, when she started to “orchestrate” this intellectual quartet of women. Interspersed with portraits sourced from encyclopaedias and excerpts from journals, the intricate calendars unfolding across more than 700 pages resist narrative in favour of a rigorous conceptual system. The result reveals an artist whose philosophical understanding of time and analytical engagement with feminism are at once mystifying and deeply structuring.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54061174620499,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Quartett88.png?v=1782112653","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/quartett-88","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}