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We are pleased to announce the first installment of Portraits for Blank Forms: Music for Our Time, a limited-edition lithograph by Simone Fattal. The first of five works by five different artists to be released by Blank Forms over the next two years, Music for Our Time is inspired by the work of German Romantic composer Robert Schumann (1810–1856).

Blank Forms has the full run of thirty prints available, each of which measures 17 × 22" and will be priced starting at $1,500. Produced at the historic EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Music for Our Time is signed, dated, and numbered by the artist.

Simone Fattal was born in Damascus, Syria in 1942 and grew up in Lebanon. She first studied philosophy at the École des Lettres of Beirut and then at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1969 she returned to Beirut and started painting. She participated in numerous shows during the ten years when life in Lebanon was still possible. In 1980, fleeing the civil war, she settled in California and founded the Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative and experimental literary work from an international roster of writers, including Etel Adnan, Marguerite Duras, Jalal Toufic, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, and Leslie Scalapino.

In 1988, Fattal returned to her artistic practice, enrolling at the Art Institute of San Francisco and crafting ceramic sculptures. Since 2006, she has produced works in Hans Spinner’s prestigious workshop in Grasse, France. In 2013, she released a movie, Autoportrait, which has been shown worldwide in many film festivals. In 2019, she was the subject of a career retrospective at MoMA PS1, titled Works and Days. In 2024, she won both the Berlin Grand Art Prize and Julio González International Prize. Other recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Musée du Louvre, Paris (2024-25); Secession, Vienna (2024); KINDL, Berlin (2023); Ocean Space, Venice (2023); and Portikus, Frankfurt (2023). 

​​Blank Forms supports artists and musicians who work across disciplines rooted in traditions of experimental and creative music. We organize concerts and exhibitions, build archives and estates, and publish books and records that bolster the critical and historical contexts of under-recognized artists and histories. From the start, support for Blank Forms’s programs has been driven primarily by the artists in our community, who help us platform complex, unruly, and ephemeral practices. Proceeds from all sales directly fund future performances, publications, and archival initiatives.