Hanne Darboven/John Cage

This monograph shows the oeuvres of artists Hanne Darboven and John Cage whose works touch upon minimal art.

Joachim Kaak's essay examines Hanne Darboven's "7 Tafeln II", a geometric construction on squared millimetre paper based on prime numbers and the square.

Corinna Thierolf analyzes John Cage's series of drawings "Ryoanji".

Here, Cage established a number system by which he encircled 15 stones with 17 different pencils.

On the basis of a complex concept based on random operations, this simultaneously created very delicate circular formations, and a structure composed of a dense tissue of lines.