Video: Anatomy of Letters by Andreas Scheiger
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Some books that fall into our hands are easy to read, but just as easily and forgotten: after a few days we are no longer able to remember the names of the characters or the storyline. Other works require thoughtfulness and attentiveness, make us think, look at things in a new way and sometimes even change our lives. The book "The Alphabet and the Elements of Writing" by Frederic Goudy is just one of the latter, because its reading inspired the Austrian artist Andreas Scheiger to create a series of sculptures "Evolution of Type".
In his work, written in 1918, Frederick Gowdy analyzes the alphabet and compares letters to human organisms. Andreas Scheiger liked this idea so much that he immediately began to develop it further: if the letters are alive, then they also have muscles, blood vessels, tendons, a skeleton inside them - everything is like a human! Need proof? Please: in his sculptures the author "reveals" the Latin letters S, Z, A and W and demonstrates to all curious their inner essence.
And here is the quote itself that prompted Andreas Scheiger to work on the sculptures: “Of all the achievements of the human mind, the invention of the alphabet is the most significant. Letters, like people, now have a pedigree, and the pedigree of words, like people, is often a very impressive possession, enabling great things to be done. It has already been mentioned here that the invention of writing is more important than all the victories won and man-made constitutions. The history of writing is the history of the formation of mankind, linking the development of thought, expression, art, communication and mechanical inventions … The letter organically possesses an aesthetic quality that is inherent in its form in itself and is not the result of simple additions to its fundamental form or its meaningless variations."
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