

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.
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
Museum & Off-site Exhibitions
Publications

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















