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Calligraphic markings

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 125 Collections and/or Records:

911 Quick Drawings, 1988

 Item — Box 99: [Barcode: 31858072538329]
Identifier: CC-14215-14522
Scope and Contents

The images consist of quick sketch line drawings; these are stored within a box painted by Evason. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

2398 gr. A Book about Food, 2003

 Item — Box 184: [Barcode: 31858072459542]
Identifier: CC-40697-42671
Scope and Contents

Fabrica is a communication research and development center founded in 1994 by the Benetton Group. At Fabrica young artists and experimenters under 25 gather and develop their creativity and concrete communication pojects in fields that range from cinema, graphic design, industrial design, music, illustration, photography, new media and editorial production...2398 gr. is the title of a book interpreting food - a fundamental cultural and anthropological stimulus. Exploring our relationship with food, the techniques of contemporary art; food as fetish, ritual, dependence, festivity, emotion, pleasure, obsession, chemistry, relation or fear. Or food as landscape, design, a metaphor, a sign, dance and architecture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

[Abstract Figure with Calligraphic Mass], 1966-1967

 Item — Folder 32: [Barcode: 31858072459914]
Identifier: CC-35935-37699
Scope and Contents

The drawing depicts a large almost round, unidentifiable mass of densely pack words and letters, numbers and marks written in varied styles. A hanging abstract figure is placed adjacent to this mass. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966-1967

Alfred Jarry, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-34012-9999017
Scope and Contents

This portrait of Jarry is drawn with indecipherable words that are overwritten and formed with different ink widths of the pen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Anakuklosis, 1982

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-37277-39123
Scope and Contents

The book object component of this work was made by Emile-Bernard-Souchiere and the prints and texts by Christian Gabriel Guez-Ricord. The texts are printed and handwritten on papier japon. The prints are also rendered on papier japon. These elements fit into the compartment at the bottom of the base of the book object. This is copy 7 out of an edition size that is based upon orders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Augen Blicke Wort Erinnern: Begegnungen mit Carlfriedrich Claus, 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33815-35481
Scope and Contents

This book edited by Gerhard Wolf consists of essays, photographs and reproductions of artworks contributed by several of Claus' friends as a memorial to his death, June 28, 1998. The loose print, a reproduction done in 1979, is placed between pages 58 and 59. The accordion pamphlet by Pierre Garnier is placed at page 80. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Avant-testo , 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-46936-49673
Scope and Contents This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition of Irma Balnk at the Galleria Spaziotemperaneo di Milano in November 2002. In his essay Gillo Dorfles describes Irma Blank's techniques for the blue paintings. "Indeed the artist uses both hands to fill with signs the vast canvases and the series of polyester sheets, all realized with a wholly manual, or rather 'corporal' technique. In fact, holding a bunch of ball-point pens in each hand, and giving each of these a synchronous rotary movement from the edge towards the centre, in close correspondence with her respiration and heartbeats, she impresses on the surface of the canvas, of polyester sheet, skeins of bright, stratified colours that - as the writing proceeds - thicken until they cover the whole surface of the painting, while maintaining imperceptible openings between one line and another: this is, in a sense, the breathing (the einatmen, or inhalation, and ausatmen, or exhalation) of the colour." -- Source of...
Dates: 2002

Blindrawings, 1987

 File — Folder 14: [Barcode: 31858072459732]
Identifier: CC-21835-22246
Scope and Contents

Automatic drawings - the first six in a series of one hundred. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987