Gilbert & George + Hanne Darboven + Sol LeWitt

Gilbert and George have been working as an artist duo since the early 1960s. For Gilbert & George there is no distinction between the artist and the artwork. Although they always place themselves and their lives at the centre of their art, they transcend the personal and their work touches upon universal themes such as identity, sexuality, religion, and politics.

The oeuvre of Hanne Darboven (1941 – 2009) includes numerous series of framed paper sheets which she inscribed with numbers, signs, and words. Hanne Darboven’s visual language, which develops from the act of calculating and writing, contains references to historical events and events in her own life, and reveals her literary and social interests. The works take on different forms: they are brought together on the wall or translated into editions and publications. 

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The exhibition Sol LeWitt – Grids explores the conceptual principle underlying the oeuvre of Sol LeWitt (1928 – 2007), which takes various guises throughout his career. By using a simple, often geometrical form as a starting point, Sol LeWitt researches the implementation of a single concept and its multiple, inherent possible variations. 

The exhibitions are part of a series of focus presentations where works and documents form the basis to elaborate further on the multifaceted oeuvres of the artists in the collection of Annick and Anton Herbert.

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