Text installation

I have a head 2, 2004 alluminio, vernice, lampada, 200x300x270cm

Welcome to the neighborhood. The neighborhood is a poem.Poems are traditionally intimate, two-dimension entities, creating a single channel from author to reader. As the academic consideration and craft-basis of poetry has become increasingly emphasized…

Today's Observer Review included a photo of a piece in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park by Jaume Plensa (whose website is here), an artist born in Barcelona in 1955 and now working in France, Spain and the USA. The image caught my eye because if shows part of a large sculpture of a human form, made entirely out of capital letters in a sort of mesh, made of metal. The YSP exhibition website is here. A Guardian article about his work is here. Lots more image, and interesting analysis of his works…

A multi-media installation uses typography and the most advanced digital technologies to ethically engage the audience.

ARE YOU COMING? Installation by Trina Teoh Acrylic Block Lettering, 2022. Trina Teoh is a writer and artist. Her text-based art revolves around the many intricacies of connection. She began her practice as a street artist painting poetry throughout the streets of Georgetown and Kuala Lumpur. Her debut exhibition, Valley Deep Into You explored the notion of site - specific textual lanugage through mediums of sculpture, installations and prints.

Pseudonymous Indian street artist DAKU recently installed an immersive text-based work in Panjim, Goa. Placed along 31st January Road, a fishnet structure suspends letters above pedestrians. The region’s abundant sunlight pours through to cast shadows on the street, spelling out tropes about the passage of time. Some of the phrases include, “Time works wonders. TimeContinue reading "Sunlight Casts Shadows of Phrases Exploring Theories of Time in a Street Art Installation by DAKU"

cut text wallpaper

Henri Cole on the experience of having his own poetry projected onto landscapes and buildings by the artist Jenny Holzer.

love // letters

While in Reykjavík, we sat down with graphic designer Guðmundur Úlfarsson to find out what makes him tick…