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This one work exhibition captures Darboven’s life-long interest in weaving together computational procedure, historical and cultural artefact, and autobiographical documentation to generate a visual system that explores the disconnect between subjective and objective perceptions of time. This presentation of “Fin de Siècle - Buch der Bilder” (1992–93) marks the centennial of the work’s earliest invocation of time—the 1923 edition of Austrian poet Rainer Rilke’s “Buch der Bilder” (1902), which not only figures in the red arabesque pattern replicated from its cover throughout the exhibition’s …