Katharina Hinsberg: Sequence: Drawings 1–117

From sheet to sheet

The artistic work of Katharina Hinsberg (*1967; Professor at the HbK Saarbrücken) focuses on a multi-layered examination of the genre of drawing and its historical, technical and spatial contexts. A typical process for her is cutting into the image carrier or cutting out drawn lines. With the artist's book "Sequence - Drawings 1-117", Katharina Hinsberg presents for the first time a series of permutative coloured drawings with 117 coloured pencils in horizontal lines on a grid. With each new sheet, another colour is added, grows, is reduced or disappears again, whereby the dense coloured line hatching is closely linked to the movement of the hand. With no space in between, the lines and strokes become coloured fields that fill the entire surface, continuing and changing from sheet to sheet. The fixed grid consists of 23 fields across and 30 lines high, each field 5 x 5 mm. Katharina Hinsberg begins her sequence in black and ends in white. The works "Sequence - Drawings 1-117" were created especially for this book of the same title, published by Jochen and Laura Kienbaum: Kienbaum Arists' Books 2018.