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Klaus Scherübel, Jack Torrance’s All Work and No Play, 2006-2008
Book, embossed cloth binding, dust jacket, approx 600 pages, 28,5 × 23 × 6 cm

unique details of different manufacturers, are welcome.
Klaus Scherübel, Jack Torrance’s All Work and the distinguishing characteristics Date: March 2 2024, 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.
and No Play #23, 2006-2008,
Pigment ink print on paper, framing of serif and sans-serif type design. As
Photo credit: Michel Brunelle a graphic designer, Maggs was very Guided tours of the exhibitions for
interested in the history of typography groups
and collected numerous examples of Offered at all times free of charge.
graphic design and type specimen books. Reservations are required via the email
of the most influential designers today. He brought many of his design skills to his address centre.design@uqam.ca
In 2020, she was given the opportunity to art, producing many works that were either
transform the whole Museum Angewandte strictly typographic, such as The Complete Partners
Kunst in Frankfurt (Germany) into one Prestige Jazz Series, or showcased graphic • Conseil des arts et des lettres du
colossal and highly immersive graphic designs from the past that evoked social, Québec
world, her world, a culmination of her cultural, or industrial histories. • UQAM | École de design
experience and expertise. The result Remarkable works by artist and editor • Institut Goethe Montréal
was an exceedingly sophisticated game Klaus Scherübel stand at an ambivalent • MP Repro
of ever-new interrelationships between position at the frontier between conceptual • v2com
information and imagery: playing with art and visual experimental writing form,
superimposition, three-dimensionality, layering multiple modern and modernist ART + TYPO at VOX centre de l’image
and spatiality, and drawing inspiration paradigms. In his works, which are often contemporaine
from a wide variety of materials and textual using a diversity of media such as Dates: February 23 to June 22 2024
media. These theatrical installations photography, video, paint, installation, Opening night: February 22 at 5 p.m.
reflect Lenz’s process-driven design publication, and exhibition, Scherübel Artists: Joi T. Arcand, Matt Donovan and
practice, which—rather than turning the questions the artistic activity, his Hallie Siegel, Robert Fones, Hamlet
viewers into consumers—offers us an representations, his production conditions, Lavastida, Kelly Mark, Judith Poirier,
opportunity to become participants in the as well as reception. In reference to a book Allen Ruppersberg, Charles Sandison,
inventive play with type, colour, graphics, in multiple components, his achievements karen elaine spencer, David Tomas
photography, and film animation etc. are now organised in ‘’volumes’’ including
Originally a graphic designer, Arnaud the production of artworks, as well as Technical sheet
Maggs was interested in the subtle specific interventions, exhibitions, or • Dates: From February 22 to April 14
differences between similar things. This publications. 2024
interest led him to take sequential frontal • Opening night: Wednesday,
and profile photographs of friends and Activities at the UQAM Centre de design February 21 at 6 p.m. Free Entry.
people he admired, build a collection of Nuit blanche à Montréal • Curators: Angela Grauerholz and
white porcelain jugs, and photograph As part of the exhibition ART + Robert Fones
Parisian hotel signs in 1991. The subtle TYPO, night owls can participate in a • Photo credit: Angela Grauerholz dw
differences between things within each playful workshop for free on the theme of
category revealed the passage of time, the typography and art. Families and children www.centrededesign.com

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