Now Leaves
Michael Dean
Published by Bookworks, London, 2015, 648 pages (b/w ill.), 12 × 16.8 cm, English
Price: €12 (Out of stock)

Dean’s work is often concerned with the play of legibility through the creation of private lexicons. The relation between spoken word performance and its graphic representation, often in the form of private, personal and self-made typefaces, is one key to his work. The otherwise mute objects are inscribed, via clues, or fragments of lettering, with a personalised form of writing, which gives the opportunity of animating the artwork. Here the book operates as a form of sculpture, inscribed with both a personal and bodily form, to be read, spoken or carefully deciphered. Designed by Michael Dean, with Fraser Muggeridge.

NOW LEAVES describes leaving and having left. Glossolalia like, against noise, about the bones of a writing, written in tongue graphics legible by reason of the trees with as many words as there are leaves. The percussion of these leaves is f***ing news. The percussion of these leaves is not his news. The percussion of these leaves is not her news. The percussion of these leaves is definitely not their news.’ – Michael Dean

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership:

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Pino Pascali
Published by Camden Arts Centre, London, 2011, 52 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20.5 × 30 cm, English
Price: €23

Catalogue produced to accompany the exhibition ... a multitude of soap bubbles which explode from time to time…  Pino Pascali’s final works 1967–1968 at Camden Arts Centre, 4 March–1 May, 2011. With essays by Martin Holman and Christopher G. Bennett. Also includes the writings of Pino Pascali, Luca Maria Patella and Eliseo Mattiacci. Designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio.

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NOW LEAVES
Michael Dean
Published by Bookworks, London, 2015, 648 pages (b/w ill.), 12 × 16.8 cm, English
Price: €20 (Temporarily out of stock)

Dean’s work is often concerned with the play of legibility through the creation of private lexicons. The relation between spoken word performance and its graphic representation, often in the form of private, personal and self-made typefaces, is one key to his work. The otherwise mute objects are inscribed, via clues, or fragments of lettering, with a personalised form of writing, which gives the opportunity of animating the artwork. Here the book operates as a form of sculpture, inscribed with both a personal and bodily form, to be read, spoken or carefully deciphered. Designed by Michael Dean, with Fraser Muggeridge.

‘NOW LEAVES describes leaving and having left. Glossolalia like, against noise, about the bones of a writing, written in tongue graphics legible by reason of the trees with as many words as there are leaves. The percussion of these leaves is f***ing news. The percussion of these leaves is not his news. The percussion of these leaves is not her news. The percussion of these leaves is definitely not their news.’—Michael Dean

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