Blink Drawings from Book Drafts
Rosemarie Trockel
German, born 1952
1990
Thirteen ink-on-paper draft pages in which Rosemarie Trockel records tentative, overlapping figural sketches and handwritten notes to make the act of drafting itself visible.
A loose, central script—reading like 'Blink Drawings 1990'—sits over whispery, ghostlike figures seen through translucent stacked sheets, so your eye shifts between the assertive handwriting and the faint, economy-of-line sketches beneath.
By presenting these drafts as works, Trockel foregrounds process and handwriting as artistic subjects, helping to expand late‑20th‑century conceptual art to include the provisional gestures and private thinking of the artist.
Medium
Ink on thirteen pieces of paper
Dimensions
page (each approx.): 8 1/2 × 6" (21.6 × 15.2 cm)
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Credit
Anonymous gift
Accession
699.2015.31.a-m
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