IRMA BLANK

Since the beginning Irma Blank immediately focused - as she says - “on writing, stripping it of meaning to charge it with other values. A writing purified of sense, an automatic sign that gives voice to the silence”. This is precisely the solution, as radical as it is personal, of Irma Blank: a writing not linked to knowledge, but to being.

Papers, sheets, canvases, books are the surfaces on which the relationship between sign and time is played out. Ink, ballpoint pen, pastels, watercolours, acrylic are tools through which the signs occupy the surfaces, and the surfaces record the time of an existence through gestures.

From the start of her career, the work of Irma Blank has been structured in series of pieces, like phases or movements, even very small ones, alongan absolutely coherent itinerary. Starting with a limited nucleus of themes and questions, each cycles is crossfaded and linked with the next in a fluid, natural progression.****************

Text courtesy P420.