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Experimental calligraphy

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Please Don't Read This / Willi, Jean., 1982

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Identifier: CC-58042-62552
Scope and Contents The drawing is depicted on page 16 of Willi's catalogue, You read, that you think you're reading - Or do you think, that you read you're thinking? (1982) Wikipedia: Jean Willi graduated in Basel in a six-year training as a graphic designer and worked there and in Paris, among other things as a designer for Olivetti and Kodak. In 1973 he began after a trip to Africa to paint and draw. In 1977, he developed his own drawing technique, in which a kind of calligraphy linked to structures and networks. Work related nature have been 1982 in a group exhibition in Zurich with the title "Schreibgestik" along with artists such as Roman Opalka and Cy Twombly issued. He later painted letters, as they might appear from their sound goes. Published in 1988, the Swiss art magazine you his illustrations to Hundred Years of Solitude. The diversity of its artistic potential he showed in 1989 in the Basel exhibition "POLE" in his attempt to combine the different facets of his work together and at the...
Dates: 1982

You read, that you think you're reading - Or do you think, that you read you're thinking? / Willi, Jean., 1982

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Identifier: CC-58041-62551
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds a drawing depicted on page 16 of this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982