"ATTA T ROLL" (nach Heinrich Heine in Zahlenworte [abgezählte Worte] wieder aufgeschrieben

Hanne Darboven is regarded as a protagonist of international conceptual art: It was with a certain matter-of-fact consistency that she filled thousands upon thousands of sheets with her characteristic handwriting, subjecting her output to a strict structure of figures, letters and words - a structure which is not always readily accessible to the viewer. The basic principle in Darboven's oeuvre is her treatment of time, as she documents its course partly on the basis of experiences in her own life and partly on literary sources: From the mid-1970s the artist started to take an interest in the works of Homer, Immanuel Kant, Alexander von Humboldt, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and others. They were the ones who provided her with “guidance in her life” (Hanne Darboven Foundation).