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Anette Lenz, Images taken from the interactive installation Constellation Voyelles n°1, 2024
Photo credit: Anette Lenz

The UQAM Centre de design and VOX Angela Grauerholz, Hiéroglyphes, extract from
Schriftbilder, 1999, 20 photograms, gelatin sil-
Present ART + TYPO: an Exhibition ver print, 40,6 x 51 cm (framed: 48,3 x 61 cm)

on the Close and Intriguing Link

Between art and Typography

Montreal, Canada

he UQAM Centre de design driven by research and a deep engagement
and VOX centre de l'image with language, materiality, and conceptual
Tcontemporaine come together to forms.
present ART + TYPO. This exhibition Typographic characters began to
has been specially developed by curators be used in art at the beginning of the
Angela Grauerholz (photographer) and 20th century, when Picasso and Braque
Robert Fones (visual artist), two artists introduced letters into their paintings,
who share a long-standing interest in using industrially manufactured metal
the history of typography, innovative stencils. Typography has also been an
experiments, art, and design. essential element in the artwork of graphic
ART + TYPO presents works by fifteen design artists and writers associated with
artists, including six at the Centre de futurism, such as the Dada movement
design who use typography in innovative and Russian Constructivism. In the 1950s reproducible form of typography.
ways in their artistic practice. The and 1960s, pop art and the conceptual art However, some of the works in the
exhibition turns the spotlight on two movement initiated a new resurgence of exhibition do not fit easily into this
disciplines rarely addressed together: art typography in art, integrating advertising, category. This contradiction reflects the
and typography. signage, and political, literary, and living nature of typographic forms, which
The exhibition crosses disciplines, philosophical texts into their work. is underpinned by their many variations.
but focuses above all on typography as a ART + TYPO focuses on art Together, the Centre de design and
formal and expressive art form, essentially that incorporates the mechanically VOX are also presenting a number of

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