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tangled alphabets
I went to NYC yesterday to see an exhibit of Latin American modernism @ MoMA: how I wish I'd gone on this jaunt while our class was still in session! The exhibit, which featured the work of just two artists--León Ferrari and Mira Schendel--was entitled "Tangled Alphabets"; it was a wonderful exploration of what might happen if you think about words as images, if you paint and draw and sculpt words--in typset, or in abstract calligraphies--as images. So much for our much-vaunted distinctions between them!
Some passages that caught my attention:
(I found myself wondering here about the applicability of the Islamic injunction against representing things/the works of God/the natural world, while allowing the representation of words, the works of people. What happens when words are made into things?)