Hanne Darboven’s installation Hommage à Picasso engulfs the viewer in 9,720 of the artist’s signature sheets of paper with handwritten numeric writing, which are encased in 270 framed panels and document the last decade of the twentieth century. She combines this record of the turn of the millennium with a framed lithograph of a Picasso’s 1955 painting Seated Figure in Turkish Costume, a series of purchased and commissioned sculptures ranging from a bronze, Roman-style bust of Picasso to birch-twig donkeys made in Poland, and the newly-produced musical work Opus 60 adapted from her score.
Taken together, the various components of the installation paint a multi-layered portrait of the artists Pablo Picasso and Hanne Darboven, which interrogates the fundamental issue of repetition and citation in art. Darboven examines both the concept of signature style, which is fundamentally about self-referentiality and the consistent reiteration of the same or similar motifs and approaches, and the practice of directly engaging aspects of the work of another artist, either in homage or as a means to one’s own artistic ends. Thus, the very notion of originality stands at the core of Hommage à Picasso.
Curator
Valerie Hillings
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Location
Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15
10117 Berlin
Opening hours
Daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursdays to 10 p.m.
Including MuseumsShop and KAFFEEBANK
Catalogue and Edition
The catalogue Hanne Darboven: Hommage à Picasso includes CD with the recording of Hanne Darboven’s Opus 60 (German or English, 38 euros) and is published on the occasion of the exhibition. As Edition No. 34 of Deutsche Guggenheim, Hanne Darboven’s Gregorianischer Kalender (Gregorian Calendar), Diavography from 2005, was produced in a limited edition of 60 numbered and signed copies + X a.p., available unframed for 500 euros.
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Admission
| Adults | | € 4 |
| reduced | | € 3 |
| Children under 12 | | Admission free |
| School classes | | Admission free |
| School classes with guided tours | | € 25 |
| Groups up to 20 | | € 35 |
| Family Card | | € 8 |
| Mondays | | Admission free |
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art shop
700 articles ranging from catalogues to toys and art books for children; innovative design from Berlin and articles from the Guggenheim Museum stores in Bilbao, New York and Venice.
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Public transport to the exhibition
Subway Stadtmitte (U2) or Französische Straße (U6)
S-Bahn Unter den Linden (S1, S2) or Friedrichstraße (S3, S5, S7, S9, S75)
Bus No.100, 147, 200
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