#hypergraphy

[icantbealive]

Becoming, the nature in silence of grief - acrylics, plastic film, cigarette ash, transcription on canvas board

[noosphe-re]

Metagraphics or post-writing, encompassing all the means of ideographic, lexical and phonetic notation, supplements the means of expression based on sound by adding a specifically plastic dimension, a visual facet which is irreducible and escapes oral labelling.

Isidore Isou

[earthgrid]

From Saint Ghetto des Prets by Gabriel Pomerand, 1949

[earthgrid]

Etude de rythmes ampliques by Albert Dupont, 1977

[laurapitt]

[eunseolgo14-blog]

[earthgrid]

Untitled work by Isidore Isou, 1964

[drawdownbooks]

Rules of Hypergraphy

“Hypergraphy” is an artistic practice developed by the Lettrist avant-garde in the 1950s. The practice “introduced into alphabetic writing not only the art of painting, but the graphics of all people or social categories past and present, as well as the graphics or anti-graphics of every individual imagination.” Practitioners of hypergraphy merged text with more visual methods of communication, including illustration, paintings, and symbols.

Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name organized by graphic designer Paul Gangloff, Rules of Hypergraphy includes “Beyond Writing,” a conversation with artist Roland Sabatier; the commissioned typeface Extradraw, designed by type designer Karl Nawrot; “Lettrist Sound Poetry and A Propagation of The New Lettrist Alphabet by Marc Matter; “A Recording of Unicode Infinite” by Jörg Piringer; and “The Punks and the Lettrists” by Hans and Gretel Metzger.

Printed in an edition of 350, 7-color Risograph

Available at Draw Down