2001.234: The White One #2

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2001.234

People

Marietta Hoferer, German (Hausach, Germany born 1962)

Title

The White One #2

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

2000

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/173245

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Collage: white masking tape, clear pressure-sensitive tape, and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

91.6 x 91.8 cm (36 1/16 x 36 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mariette Hoferer, New York, NY, sale, 8.
Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky, New York NY, purchase, 8, 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

2001.234

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Commentary

New York based artist Marietta Hoferer studied at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin. This piece is representative of a larger body of work in which fragments of opaque and transparent tapes overlie graphite grids. From a distance, the tape forms a meticulously mapped and rhythmic pattern. Closer inspection of the pristine, geometric surface reveals something more human, however: hand-cut pieces of tape that are only roughly square (some of whose edges lift from the support), lint and graphite fingerprints caught on transparent tape. Hoferer relates the repetitive application of tape to paper with labor, passage of time, and meditation. It is particularly evocative of weaving, which the artist notes, "is linked to processes of labor performed by women in the past.'

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