Review: Irma Blank, Alison Jacques Gallery
Gabriel Coxhead, ArtReview
May 2017
Irma Blank is one of the most interesting artists to have benefited from the artworld’s recent mania for overlooked or forgotten talent. Though she’s been making work since the late 1960s, the German-born artist was hardly known outside Italy, where she’s lived for the six past decades, until a solo presentation in the 2013 Frieze Masters Spotlight section sparked a dramatic surge of interest (seriously, her ranking graph on artfacts.com shows probably the steepest ascent you’ll ever see) to the extent that now, aged eighty-three, she’s included in this year’s Venice Biennale. […]