#dom sylvester houedard

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Dom Sylvester Houédard.

[visual-poetry]

by dom sylvester houédard

lisson gallery currently (2 may – 16 june 2018) presents the first new york show of concrete poet, visual artist, writer and benedictine monk, dom sylvester houédard (1924–1992) and its first solo exhibition of his work for almost 50 years.

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Cal Revely-Calder wins the 2017 prize for his review of Dom Sylvester Houédard's exhibition 'Typestracts'

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music

FKA twigs (2019), Magdalene. Available at: Spotify (Accessed: 19 October 2021).

Tyler the Creator (2019) 'IGOR'. Available at: Spotify (Accessed: 26 October 2021).

SZA (2017) 'Go Gina'. Available at: Spotify (Accessed: 24 October 2021).

Nothing but Thieves, Moral Panic Tour. 8 October, O2 Arena, London.

books

Nairne, E. (2021) Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty. Exhibition held at the Barbican, London 2021 [Exhibition catalogue].

Hara, K. (2011) Designing Design. Baden: Lars Muller Publishers.

Walker, C. (2021) Your Head is a Houseboat. Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books.

films/animation/videos

Interstellar (2013) Directed by Christopher Nolan Available at: Netflix (Accessed: 10 September 2021).

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013) Directed by Isao Takahata Available at: Netflix (Accessed: 17 October 2021).

My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Available at: Netflix (Accessed: 17 October 2021).

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Directed by Wes Anderson. Available at: Netflix (Accessed: 2nd October 2021).

Love, Death & Robots (2019) Available at: Netflix (Accessed: 26 October 2021).

Normington, C. (2020) She Got Confused // He Wouldn't Sleep | Persian Empire. Available at: https://www.conlannormington.com/#/persian-empire-music-video/ (Accessed: 18 October 2021).

Vox (2018) The decline of Hong Kong's iconic neon glow. 8 August. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdpEYzvi8pI&list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5dRe4rC7m8jDaqodjZeLzCZ&index=17 (Accessed: 24 October 2021).

Dream Perfect Regime (2020) DPR LIVE- Legacy. 3 March. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGMbmYNkWI (Accessed: 1st October).

exhibitions

The Making of Rodin (2021) [Exhibition]. Tate Modern, London. 6 June - 12 November 2021.

Tokyo 1964: Designing Tomorrow (2021) [Exhibition]. Japan House, London. 5 August - 7 November 2021.

studios

BAD STUDIO (2021) BAD STUDIO. Available at: https://badbadbadbad.com/ (Accessed: 26 October 2021).

Twelve (2021) Twelve Digital. Available at: http://twelve.la/tag:digital (Accessed: 30 October 2021).

Hort (2021) Nike Just Don’t Quit. Available at: https://www.hort.org.uk/ (Accessed: 26 October 2021).

magazines

Stack (2021) A short walk with Flaneur. Available at: https://www.stackmagazines.com/art-design/if-you-want-to-do-something-outside-of-the-box-then-you-have-to-live-outside-of-the-box/ (Accessed: 25 October 2021).

artists

Stone, M. (2019) Magdalene [Album cover art]. Available at: https://www.matthewstone.co.uk/2019/9/17/ke31aq6lb2qf229pwi8uffehzn28de (Accessed: 19 October 2021).

Design Observer (2012) Dom Sylvester Houédard’s Cosmic Typewriter. Available at: https://designobserver.com/feature/dom-sylvester-houedards-cosmic-typewriter/37577 (Accessed: 26 October 2021).

Beksiński, Z. (1972) Untitled. Available at: https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdzislaw-beksinski/all-works#!#filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry (Accessed: 17 October 2021).

Warburton, H. (2021) Holly Warburton. Available at: https://hollywarbs.com/ (Accessed: 17 October 2021).

Brice, L. (2017; 2019) After Embah; Untitled. Available at: https://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/31-lisa-brice/(Accessed: 17 October 2021).

Ong, J. (2020) ' “Absence in design is very important”: Karel Martens on paying attention to the things we don’t see'. Available at: https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/karel-martens-re-printed-matter-graphic-design-020920. (Accessed at: 17 October 2021).

Reva, A. (2021) [@savemymindAL] 1 June. Available at: https://twitter.com/savemymindal/status/1399767709294997506 (Accessed on: 17 October 2021).

Yokota, D. (2015) Untitled from Color Photographs. Available at: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/daisuke-yokota-untitled-from-color-photographs (Accessed: 1 October 2021).

Takahashi, D. (2012) Skyrim creator Todd Howard shares secrets of video game design. Available at: https://venturebeat.com/2012/02/08/skyrim-creator-todd-howard-shares-secrets-of-video-game-design/ (Accessed: 26 October 2021).

Barbakadze, N. (2020) Tarek Mawad - Into the light. Available at: https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/tarek-mawad (Accessed: 26 October 2021).

Gagosian (2021) Artists. Available at: https://gagosian.com/artists/ (Accessed: 26 October 2021).

The Fandangoe Kid. (2021) What is Authenticity [Speech]. Chelsea College of Art & Design. 4 October.

Mike Lamont (2021) Mike Lamont - 2D/3D Design & Art Direction. Available at: https://mike.computer/ (Accessed: 24 October 2021).

[elladrawssomtimes]

a piece by  Dom Sylvester Houédard using gif animation and word play. i quite enjoy the simplicity of this cleverly made piece.

[thequietestnoiseonearth]

Dom Sylvester Houedard

[theideaofthebook]

The third and largest issue of the envelope magazine ‘ABC’ where the ‘editorial policy was to accept everything that arrives in 200 copies by the (flexible) deadline.’ Edited by Jeremy Adler and published by The National Poetry Centre, featuring concrete and visual poetry by artists from across the world including G. J. de Rook, Betty Radin, Jennifer Pike, bpNichol, Maurizio Nannuci, Jackson Mac Low, Dom Sylvester Houedard (dsh), P. C. Fencott, Paul Dutton, Bob Cobbing, among others. Sold.

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Dom Sylvester Houédard

[antoniabaker-blog]

Moving Type Introduction

Ivan Chemayeff and Tom Geismar – Watching words move

Ivan Chemayeff and Tom Geismar – ‘Logo motion’

Ivan Chemayeff – ‘9 west 57th Street’, Door number, 3D type

Jean-Luc Godard – ‘Pierrot le Fou’, Letters in Alphabetical order moving around

Christian Marclay – Comic book onomatopia, dounds displayed through type, silent film

Michael Gondry – Collaging film, set in real world, look that associates with travel

Dom Sylvester Houedard – ‘Mind Ache’

Karel Teige – ‘Abecedo/Alphabet, uses choreography, timing, poetry of type

Freckle – ‘Daft Hands’, popular because anyone could have done it, keeps building, lofi adds to it, wouldn’t feel warmth is the quality was polished.

Guy de Cointet – ‘Tell Me’, performance type, typography gets increasingly abstract

[mrb33]

A little mooch here and a little mooch there...

Some of the galleries I've visited and the art I've seen over the last few weeks:

Fashion photography

Solo exhibition of fashion photographer, Arthur Elgort at Atlas Gallery (to 2 September 2017)

Model Christy Turlington poses in New Orleans in 1990

Kate Moss at Café Lipp, Paris, Vogue Italia

Kristen McMenamy and Linda Evangelista in Paris, for Vogue Germany, 1991.

Vivian Leigh

Sotheby's Vivian Leigh preview show.

Italian landscape painting by Vivien Leigh

Roses in a Glass Vase - Winston Churchill

Portrait of Vivien by Dietz Edzard

Portrait of Vivien by Augustus John 1942

Posters

at Sotheby's

Dozy, grumpy...and Bogey

Original art work for ‘Performance’ poster - Vic Fair

Greta Garbo Queen Christina (1933) window Card

Playing Mas

at Vigo Gallery

Zak Ove

Ben Enwonwu

Caroline Achaintre

Zak Ove

Playground Structure

at Blain/Southern (to 16 September 2017)

Amy Feidman - Naked Baked 2016 and Jeremy Moon - Ice Palace 1970

Jeremy Moon - No 1/70 (1970)

Transient Space

at Parafin Gallery (to 16 September 2017)

From the PRESS RELEASE: In ‘The Painter of Modern Life’ (1863) Charles Baudelaire called upon artists to attempt to capture the fast-changing landscape of modern life by creating images of the ‘transient, the fleeting, the contingent…’ For Baudelaire modernity was located firmly in the city and just over 150 years later, for many, this remains the case. Urban space remains a key subject of enquiry for many artists.

Transient Space is a group show exploring different approaches to urban space in the work of six leading contemporary artists.

Installation shot with Mike Ballard’s ‘Sentry’ 2016 & ‘Superstrasse’ 2016 in foreground

Abigail Reynolds

Words and Deeds

at Philips to 25 august 2017

Sam Durrant  (2002)

Doug Aitken - ‘One’ (2011)

Jack Pierson (1996)

Joseph Beuys

at Waddington Custot (to 9 September 2017)

One Bar Electric Memoir

Harland Miller at White Cube Mason's Yard (to 9 September 2017)

From the PRESS RELEASE: New work by Harland Miller at Mason’s Yard. ‘One Bar Electric Memoir’ includes two series of paintings that continue and expand Miller’s investigation into the relationship between viewer, text and image.

The first series of large-scale works draws on Miller’s extensive archive of psychology and social science books, which date from the 1960s and ‘70s. Characterised by their bold and colourful abstract covers, these books embraced a positive attitude and the possibility of ‘fixing’ disorders through a process of self-help. The geometric cover designs not only drew parallels with contemporary abstract painting, but also provided a foil to the darker aspects of social neurosis addressed by the books’ content. As Miller has commented, they hail ‘from that very particular, positive, post-war era when information was being made more available and being hungered for, too. It was often practical and pre-jargon and to do with fixing things – fixing society, fixing yourself...’.

In Miller’s paintings, three-dimensional architectonic forms in bright, pop colours float against solid saturated backgrounds and are paired with fictional, sardonically humorous titles such as Reverse Psychology Isn’t Working (2017) and Immediate Relief... Coming Soon (2017). Occasionally, the same title appears on different compositions, highlighting how colour, form and context can change both the rhythm and meaning of words. Similar to the titles, Miller’s abstract imagery can also be read in different ways. Commenting on the work Armageddon – Is It Too Much To Ask? (2017), for example, he says: ‘It’s an image that you see one way – then, when you relax, it flips and, no matter how hard you try, you can’t see it the original way. It’s symbolic of the way you read the title.’ These works reflect a departure for the artist, whose previous series of Penguin paperback paintings were re-appropriations of an existing object. Here, for the first time, Miller creates his own designs, focusing more closely on the impact of the image itself.

In another series of fictional book cover paintings, Miller depicts the outlines of letters in a range of typefaces and colours, intersected or layered over each other to create short, enigmatic words such as ‘Up’ or ‘If’. Through a process of isolation, overlaying and re-connecting, Miller creates a sense of depth in the image that deconstructs and abstracts the meaning of language itself. With their bold, saturated colours, these paintings reference American abstraction and, in particular, Robert Rauschenberg and Ed Ruscha’s use of vernacular signage and motifs. Miller has said about this series: ‘The idea is to make paintings that are just words, in contrast to the titles of previous works’.

In both series of paintings the artist continues to use his own name as author. While the presence of Miller’s name alludes to the actual authorship of both image and text, fact and fiction become blurred, allowing for the artist’s deadpan humour to provoke, question and draw attention to the context and content of each work.

Beneath the Pavement, the Beach

at Sotheby's S/2 Gallery to 28 August 2017

From the PRESS RELEASE: Works from Helen Chadwick and Dom Sylvester Houédard brought together alongside a selection of Tantric, Jain and Ritual art from India. Chadwick's saturated and meticulously composed still life photographs explore the sensual through floral arrangements of anatomy, whilst Sylvester Houédard's Concrete Poetry works employ graphic lines and geometric shapes to illustrate his fascination with the patterns of type and language.

Jain Cosmological Map of the Universe

Detail

Detail

detail

Helen Chadwick’s ‘Wreaths to Pleasure’

Salagrama

Dom Sylvester Houedard -Typestract 720105

Dom Sylvester Houedard - Jjewelled Pig

Jnana Chaupar (a game of knowledge)

Detail

The illustrious sh, small blue fork representing an incarnation of Vishnu, descending into our dark world under the seal of energy, the multi-coloured spiral.

[visual-poetry]

by dom sylvester houédard

lisson gallery currently (2 may – 16 june 2018) presents the first new york show of concrete poet, visual artist, writer and benedictine monk, dom sylvester houédard (1924–1992) and its first solo exhibition of his work for almost 50 years.

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Brief

Unit 04: Possibilities Encyclopedia Typographica

In a scientific context, an experiment is a test of an idea; a set of actions performed to prove or disprove a hypothesis. Experimentation in this sense is an empirical approach to knowledge that lays a foundation upon which others can build. It requires all measurements to be made objectively under controlled conditions, which allows the procedure to be repeated by others, thus proving that a phenomenon occurs after a certain action, and that the phenomenon does not occur in the absence of the action.

– Peter Bil’ak on experimentation The Task

Individually you will choose a sheet with entries from one letter of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the oldest english-language encyclopedia. Select a word from this sheet where you will research into its etymology, semantics, context, use and purpose and all other associations that can be constructed.

You will be interpreting and communicating your word through a combination of at least two of the printing processes at Camberwell. What is the potential of these printing processes? Exploit their functionality. How can you show information in a new way? Consider in detail how the processes you use interact with one another.

Project 09 24/01/2017 – 15/05/2017

References:

Robert Rauschenberg

Sigmar Polke

Marc Camille Chaimowicz An Autumn Lexicon – Serpentine Gallery

Ciara Philips http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/ tateshots-turner-prize-2014-ciara-phillips

Sister Corita Kent

Karel Martens https://vimeo.com/31486228 (watch this video)

Dom Sylvester Houedard The Cosmic Typewriter – Occasional Papers

Peter Nencini http://peternencini.blogspot.co.uk/

laszlo Moholy Nagy

Designer as Producer - Ellen Lupton, Graphic Design Now in Production.

Ken Cox Memorial Poster – Fraser Muggeridge & Freddy Williams http://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/sun- cheese-wheel-ode

Wolfgang Weingart – Wege zur Typografie: My Way to Typography

Behind The Poster, Polish posters – https://vimeo.com/50977573

Think about –

– Images – Typography – Paper – Objects – Colour – Scale – Ink – Finishes – Photography – Drawing

– Technical Specifications – Data – Layering

You can choose any dimension and type of paper.

The deadline for this project is at your Unit 4 hand in at the end of May.

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Dom Sylvester Houedard

His work has a minimalist, subtle feel, under the form of collages or almost 3d-looking compositions. It's more often than not inspired by religious ideas, but it manages to keep me interested through the witty captions. I find it interesting that he came to these compositions through type, on a typewriter.

Design Observer (2012) Dom Sylvester Houédard’s Cosmic Typewriter. Available at: https://designobserver.com/feature/dom-sylvester-houedards-cosmic-typewriter/37577 (Accessed: 26 October 2021).

[rubytvesday-blog]

In week 7′s lecture, Andy discussed the influence of the machine on communication design and made reference to the typewriter. Dom Sylvester Houedard (1924 - 1992) was a Benedictine monk who composed elaborate visual poems referred to as ‘typestracts.’ This is a form of ‘concrete poetry’ in which words and letters are utilised to form shapes or visual designs. I only recently stumbled upon Houdard’s work and I love the coexistence of detail and simplicity in it. He lived a really interesting life and collaborated with a multitude of artists including Yoko Ono.

Read more about him here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/arts/design/the-eccentric-monk-and-his-typewriter.html

[theideaofthebook]

The second issue of the envelope magazine ‘AB’ where the ‘editorial policy was to accept everything that arrives in 200 copies by the (flexible) deadline.’ Edited by Jeremy Adler and published in 1973 in an edition of 200 by The National Poetry Society, featuring concrete and visual poetry by artists from across the world including Miroljub Todorovic, Mira Schendel, Peter Mayer, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Mike Gibbs, Peter Finch, P. C. Fencott, Jennifer Cobbing, Bob Cobbing, and Robert Caldwell, among others. Sold.