Harvard Art Museums > 2001.236: Fing-W Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Fing-W (Susanna Niederer) , 2001.236,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/169251. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2001.236 People Susanna Niederer, Swiss (Basel, Switzerland born 1958) Title Fing-W Other Titles Alternate Title: Fing-W 17 Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1999 Culture Swiss Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/169251 Physical Descriptions Medium White ink on gray wove paper Dimensions 24 x 31.9 cm (9 7/16 x 12 9/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: initialled in graphite at l.r.: SN 1999 inscription: l.r., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: FING - W 17 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY, sale, 2. Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY, purchase, 2, gift. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky Accession Year 2001 Object Number 2001.236 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Commentary Concerned with the intersection of language, sound, and image, Susanna Niederer has employed the ellipse as symbol for both the limits of each system and the point of their exchange. In her work, In the course of her decade-long exploration of the ellipse and its rhythmic, graphic, and spatial qualities, Niederer experimented with a number of techniques and materials including embossed aluminum, silkscreen on glass, and incised metal tubing. Concurrently, she elaborated her ideas on paper in a number of serial works. The ink on paper drawings that comprise the Fing-W and Ro-Ko series are gestural in contradistinction to her sculptural pieces. The repetitive inscription of ellipses bound by squares forms irregular grids. Though minimal the pieces are also intimate, ink markings on small sheets of mulberry or parchment paper. With a background in the study of Romance languages and art history, Susanna Niederer has edited for publishing houses and directed films on contemporary art. She lives and works in Zürich and Paris, though she has, in the past 20 years, held residences in such countries as Britain, Mexico, and the U.S. The Museum Wiesbaden mounted an extensive exhibit of her work with ellipses in 1999. Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
