Index Code:

ART-OAT-BLA

Orgin:

Germany/Italy

Field Notes:

Pages lines and bands are filled with strokes that follow time rather than text

Defining Moment:

The long drawing cycles where each page records hours of scripted movement turning reading into silent structure

Irma Blank

(

1934–2023

)

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Blank built a world where language dissolves into pulse — lines written without text, repeating like steady respiration.

Her surfaces make silence legible.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Irma Blank’s work, this approach appears where repetition replaces language through writing-as-drawing.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Irma Blank’s work, this approach appears where repetition replaces language through writing-as-drawing.

Spatial Reduction

Space is clarified through subtraction, compression, and restraint.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Abstraction

Visual structure is distilled into autonomous, non-representational form.

Conceptual Art

Language, instruction, and proposition function as the work itself.

Irma Blank

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

In Dialogue

Irma Blank

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue