The artistic display at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery of Hanne Darboven titled, “Clockwise from right”, proves to bring light upon the thoughts of Friedrich Nietzshe. One of Nietzsche’s important topics includes the idea of a rational and intuitive man. This essay will explore the question of whether Nietzsche was right when he said that it is important to live an extra-moral life. In a society where there are many practical careers, such as accountants and scientists, it is difficult to reach back to the ancient Greek society to understand how the rational and the intuitive once blended together in a flourishing society. However, there could be a way in which the rational can become more intuitive. Nietzsche’s claim that the rational could make an attempt at becoming more intuitive in today’s society holds true. Hanne Darboven was a German artist who is primarily known for her systematic charts, sequences of numbers, and her long strands of looped forms that evoke handwriting. Before becoming an artist, Darboven first trained as a pianist, and in the 1960s she studied graphic design in Hamburg, Germany. In 1966, Darboven left Germany for New York, where she met and exhibited with several artists of the burgeoning Minimalist and Conceptual art …show more content…
She often starts her drawings with the current calendar date. Darboven’s work of art, “Clockwise from right”, uses a systematic sequence of numbers, which are written in blocks of 15x15 digits. The exhibit at the Albright-Knox took up almost an entire wall filled with black rectangular picture frames, each filled with two blocks of 15x15 digits. Above and below the blocks of numbers, contain what seem to be the calculations that the blocks of numbers represent. The work of art is simply ink on vellum, containing no color whatsoever. The most important part about the piece is that it is very consistent and almost perfectly