Facsimile Edition of 200 numbered copies.
Spanish\/English bilingual edition
Xerography + Ring-bound
2015
Texts and images: Le\u00f3n Ferrari<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the book, practical and economical as it is, Ferrari found a format that allowed –<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Written Painting<\/em> (1984), a book that refers to his mythical work of the same name, –<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Paraheretics<\/em> (1986) Leon uses the collage \u2013 or rather, montage \u2013 to express his –<\/p>\n\n\n\n Images<\/em> (1988) is an essay about the sign. In its chapter \u2018Codes\u2019 we see Ferrari in
him to socialise his ideas and researches outside the traditional art circuits. During
the 1980s, in exile in Brazil, he began working with a photocopier and completed
a series of 200 ring-bound copies, numbered and signed as author\u2019s books, which
he distributed among friends and colleagues. This was how Written Painting<\/em> (1984),
Paraheretics<\/em> (1986) and Images<\/em> (1988\/89), amongst others, came into being, the
three titles with which the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires launches this
facsimile collection to make them once again accessible to the public. Applying the
techniques of the original series and working with the same photocopiers the artist
used to make new copies on his return to Argentina, we have recaptured the quality
of the xerography and the richness of the artisan process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Le\u00f3n turns to an important series of his manuscript drawings begun in 1964, in which
he appeals to both the visual faculty and to reading. Charged with expressiveness,
his texts oscillate between clarity and chaos, provocation and sensuality. At once
image and text, each one demonstrates Ferrari\u2019s concern to produce an art closely
tied to language and sonority, in which the quality of the stroke is as evocative as the
meaning of the word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n280 pages
Format: 21x29cm
ISBN 978-987-673.279-6
This facsimile edition is a copy of the original publication, Cuadro escrito<\/em> (Edi\u00e7\u00f5es Lycopodio,
S\u00e3o Paulo, 1984), published by Leon Ferrari, print run 200. The copy used for this reproduction
was No. 163\/200.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
criticism of the suppression of sexuality in the West by the Catholic Church. Ferrari
creates heresy by appropriating classical images with religious subjects, mainly
engravings by Albrecht D\u00fcrer, which he intervenes with biting humour, creating
impossible beasts that ridicule the religious figures and the edifices of the Catholic
religion, or subvert images of Christian devotion by inserting explicit scenes taken
from Eastern erotic art or Western demonology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n280 pages
Format: 21x29cm
ISBN 978-987-673.279-6
This facsimile edition is a copy of the original publication, Parahereges<\/em> (Editora Express\u00e3o,
S\u00e3o Paulo 1986), published by Leon Ferrari, print run 200. The copy used for this reproduction
was No. 182\/200.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
the midst of inventing of a visual \u2013 or verbal \u2013 language that allows him actions as
disparate as creating new \u2013 secret \u2013 signs, interpreting the Kamasutra and Zoology
as abstractions or crossing music and writing, through the use of both drawing and
Letraset. In \u2018Chess\u2019, \u2018Floors and Plans\u2019 and \u2018Bathers\u2019 the artist references rubbings
and signs from chess and architecture, allowing him to inquire lucidly and ludically
into the nature of codes and the social condition of contemporary man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n280 pages
Format:21x29cm
ISBN 978-987-673.279-6
This facsimile edition is a copy of the original publication, Imagens<\/em> (Edi\u00e7\u00f5es Exu,
S\u00e3o Paulo, 1988), published by Leon Ferrari, print run 100. The copy used for this reproduction was
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