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Jonathan Borofsky, “Counting from 1 to 3227146,” (1969-1986)
[Terminartors] via facteneleven
Obsessive behavior requires dogged persistence in the face of tedium and extreme abstraction. Ann Curran describes a pivotal point in Jonathan Borofsky’s career:
He became, he says, “more cerebral than I had ever been before.” He hung around his studio writing down his ideas that he later gathered in the unpublished but exhibited “Thought Books.” And he started to count—on paper—for several hours each day. Heading from one to infinity, his counting took a not unexpected turn. He’d think of something that he wanted to draw and put it right down there with the numbers. After literally several years of counting, one day he thought he’d like to paint one of his sketches. Instead of signing it, he used the number he had reached that day as his signature. Borofsky’s 34-inch stack of 8 1/2-by-11 pages, titled “Counting,” with numbers from 1 to 2,346,502, became the center of his first one-person show in 1975 in New York City at the Paula Cooper Gallery. He signed the other paintings and sculptures in the gallery with the number he had arrived at when they were completed.
I own the book “Dreams” by Borofsky, bought on a whim without knowing anything about him, and I love it, of the art books I own it’s my favorite.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljtwdnOOsf1qe9o9po1_400.jpg)
Jonathan Borofsky, “Counting from 1 to 3227146,” (1969-1986)[Terminartors] via facteneleven
Obsessive behavior requires dogged persistence in the face of tedium and extreme abstraction. Ann Curran describes a pivotal point in Jonathan Borofsky’s career:He became, he says, “more cerebral than I had ever been before.” He hung around his studio writing down his ideas that he later gathered in the unpublished but exhibited “Thought Books.” And he started to count—on paper—for several hours each day. Heading from one to infinity, his counting took a not unexpected turn. He’d think of something that he wanted to draw and put it right down there with the numbers.
After literally several years of counting, one day he thought he’d like to paint one of his sketches. Instead of signing it, he used the number he had reached that day as his signature. Borofsky’s 34-inch stack of 8 1/2-by-11 pages, titled “Counting,” with numbers from 1 to 2,346,502, became the center of his first one-person show in 1975 in New York City at the Paula Cooper Gallery. He signed the other paintings and sculptures in the gallery with the number he had arrived at when they were completed.I own the book “Dreams” by Borofsky, bought on a whim without knowing anything about him, and I love it, of the art books I own it’s my favorite.
