Contemporary Hyloshapes
Author: Pau Geis, Alberto Arribas, Isabel Pacheco, Ignasi Casas, Felicidad and Claudia Portabella
Contemporary Hyloshapes studies the formality of sculpture (with a global archive of 205 artworks by 34 artists) and establishes a relationship with typeface design. By blending these contemporary artworks with typography design methodologies, a new language is translated between mediums and scales, exploring ways of generating images.
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Contemporary Hyloshapes studies the formality of sculpture (with a global archive of 205 artworks by 34 artists) and establishes a relationship with typeface design. By blending these contemporary artworks with typography design methodologies, a new language is translated between mediums and scales, exploring ways of generating images.
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Contemporary Hyloshapes is about the study of the shape and the formalist qualities of contemporary sculpture which leads to the conception of an original typography –or sculptural language. It is comprised of an archive of 205 contemporary sculpture works by 34 different artists from Europe, Asia and Central and South America; commissioned written work, a typeface, and a series of computer-generated images, where letters ultimately become sculptures.The project materialises in a book, including the full archive, curated in collaboration with Alberto Arribas, accompanied by comissioned texts written by Alberto Arribas and Isabel Pacheco, and translated by Clàudia Portabella. The book shows the transition process from volumetric shapes to typographic figures, a language that draws on the aesthetics of contemporary sculptural art, showing the final specimen. Ultimately, these two-dimension bodies turn into original sculptures through the computer-generated images by Ignasi Casas, recovering their objectual shape.
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