IRMA BLANK
Born in 1934 in Celle, Germany
Died in 2023 in Milan, Italy
Towards the end of the Sixties, after a long period of existential and creative effort, in an atmosphere of linguistic experiment, and to escape the transience and ambiguity of the word, I returned to the sign itself, to the *Urzeichen**, to the primordial, undifferentiated sign that precedes the word. It was a new start, shifting the gaze to the beginning, to the *Ursprung**, a pure act of writing, a primeval communicative energy that schooled and realised itself in the sign that in its evolution is writing — scription, to quote Roland Barthes. It denudes writing of sense to charge it with other values.
It is the triumph of blue, recalling all the ink spilled over the centuries. It opens to the immensity of spaces, to infinity.
Irma Blank
Selected Artworks
Irma Blank
Radical Writings, Poem for Marina Cvetaeva, 1994
Irma Blank
Radical Writings, 1989
Irma Blank
Trascrizioni, 1973
Irma Blank
Gehen, Second life A3, novembre 2018, 2018
Irma Blank
Radical Writings, Rosa geatmet, rosa geschrieben, 1987
Irma Blank
Eigenschriften, Pagina 51, 1970
Irma Blank
Germinazioni, 1982
Irma Blank
Hyper-Text, 29-4-98, 1998
Irma Blank
Hdjt Ljr, 2000
Irma Blank
Radical Writings, Exercitium 6, 9-9-89, 1989
Irma Blank
Radical Writings, Exercitium 1 vom 15-12-89, 1989
Irma Blank
Gehen, Second life WAYS I, gennaio 2020, 2020
Irma Blank
Gehen, Second life 27-11-2018, 2018
Irma Blank
Avant-testo 29-7-99, 1999
Irma Blank
Gehen, Second life n.5, aprile 2018, 2018
Irma Blank
Gehen, Second life 5 novembre 2017, 2017
Gallery Exhibitions
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Museum & Off-site Exhibitions
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Publications
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Senza Parole
on line
Exercitium
Gehen
Einzeiler
No words
hdjt ljr
Ur-Buch ovvero Romanzo Blu
Exempla
Leerbuch - Lehrbuch
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Blank Book
Memory
Sign and sound
Avant-testo
Hyper-Text
Horizont
Riccardo Baruzzi, Irma Blank, Adelaide Cioni, Filippo de Pisis, Paolo Icaro, Piero Manai, Alessandro Pessoli