UNTIL SUNDAY 20/3
GENS PUMPS. Burjassot, 54
Language is the most precise mechanism we have to describe and define our world., to relate to humans and communicate. But for Irma Blank, words were barriers when she migrated from her native Germany to Sicily at the age of twenty., She lived an experience of isolation that motivated her, In his art, to strip signs of meaning to leave typography naked, as an abstract element that surpasses the word and the specific meaning. Avant-garde movements such as the Bauhaus, De Stijl or Russian constructivism contributed to shaping modern typography whose founding father is Jan Tschichold, the surrealists subverted language with their meaningless automatic writing, and conceptual artist Hanne Darboven, also german, would use number systems to explore time and document his life, a way of working that he said was “a way of writing without describing”. The language as abstraction practiced by Blank draws on all of them and connects wonderfully with the collection of abstract works of the Fundació Per Amor a l'Art. Your headquarters, Gens Bombs, discovers us, one more time, to a little-known artist to the surprise of art connoisseurs, mounting its first major exhibition in Spain. Blank writes without words and invents alphabets using pastel and ink at the beginning, of acrylic and watercolor after, and from the computer, printing and screen printing finally for draw lines of writing and superimposing texts that mean nothing but convey a lot. Blank It is an exhibition full of letters, signs and lines in which there is nothing to read. S.M.
