MAMCO Geneve acquires two works by Betty Danon

Codice migratorio (1973)

[ … ]  I had also discovered that two slightly overlapping brackets placed horizontally suggested a seagull in flight. With a few rows of these gulls a flock emerged. This amused me a lot and right then I sent a flock to Lucia Pescador who at that time used seagull flights in her works. I added a dedication that read: "While I was playing with the typewriter, your seagulls came to me. There were many of them – as usual, I lined them up and sent them back to you".  [ … ]

 

Partitura asemantica (1974)

[ … ] All my work is based on a dynamic and dialectic research within an interior dimension invariably centred on man as a spectator and protagonist in a world of endless combinations and probabilities… all considered a big enigma about what concerns being and becoming, the happenings of micro and macrocosm, the mystery of chance, the ambiguity of reality.

The basic element I use to express myself is line as a dynamic psychic force. By superimposing signs and the endless possible combinations I carry out an analysis of surface-space, space-time-rhythm relationships, and I make what I call “abstract scores”. [ … 

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Betty Danon