SENECA Roland, NOËL Bernard.
Literally.
Fata Morgana
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| N° d'inventaire | 25676 |
| Format | 12 x 17 |
| Détails | 40 p., black and white illustrations, paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Saint Clement of the River, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782377921010 |
Faced with this organic alphabet, where the characters are alive and now indomitable, Bernard Noël asks:
Isn't it shocking to think that if, since its origin, the world was visible to man, it took millennia to make it speakable, and many more centuries to make speech readable and therefore visual through writing. And most simply through the invention of the alphabet, which dates back only three thousand years. The alphabet that succeeds with so few letters – ours twenty-six – in representing all the sounds of our language.
Roland Sénéca's drawings – exhibited in France and abroad since 1973 – are bodies with dreamlike contours, close to the indescribable. In whimsical entanglements, the materials tear apart meaning and transcend the enigma of the letter: these mysterious specimens only await the gaze to express themselves. Roland Sénéca and Bernard Noël maintained a lively correspondence. Both fascinated by the relationship between language and the visible ( A Machine to See ), this book, an attempt to represent the letter, appears as a shift from form to meaning.
Isn't it shocking to think that if, since its origin, the world was visible to man, it took millennia to make it speakable, and many more centuries to make speech readable and therefore visual through writing. And most simply through the invention of the alphabet, which dates back only three thousand years. The alphabet that succeeds with so few letters – ours twenty-six – in representing all the sounds of our language.
Roland Sénéca's drawings – exhibited in France and abroad since 1973 – are bodies with dreamlike contours, close to the indescribable. In whimsical entanglements, the materials tear apart meaning and transcend the enigma of the letter: these mysterious specimens only await the gaze to express themselves. Roland Sénéca and Bernard Noël maintained a lively correspondence. Both fascinated by the relationship between language and the visible ( A Machine to See ), this book, an attempt to represent the letter, appears as a shift from form to meaning.
Isn't it shocking to think that if, since its origin, the world was visible to man, it took millennia to make it speakable, and many more centuries to make speech readable and therefore visual through writing. And most simply through the invention of the alphabet, which dates back only three thousand years. The alphabet that succeeds with so few letters – ours twenty-six – in representing all the sounds of our language.
Roland Sénéca's drawings – exhibited in France and abroad since 1973 – are bodies with dreamlike contours, close to the indescribable. In whimsical entanglements, the materials tear apart meaning and transcend the enigma of the letter: these mysterious specimens only await the gaze to express themselves. Roland Sénéca and Bernard Noël maintained a lively correspondence. Both fascinated by the relationship between language and the visible ( A Machine to See ), this book, an attempt to represent the letter, appears as a shift from form to meaning.