With Olivier Deloignon, professor of typographic history at the Haute école des arts du Rhin.
In the late 1970s, Jean Alessandrini invented the word-image, a new genre combining the rigor of the typographer with the freedom of the illustrator. The idea was to draw an object, a character or an idea using only the letters that make up its name. The word-pictures were published in albums (the most recent in 2024), and Jean Alessandrini used them as a source for several of his texts. But this creation is part of a wider history of art, a history of forms that has seen creators play with the tension or fusion between letter and image. This is also the history that the conference will attempt to trace.
Tue.25.02| 6:30pm | Lecture | Auditorium | Free | Reservation required
In the late 1970s, Jean Alessandrini invented the word-image, a new genre combining the rigor of the typographer with the freedom of the illustrator. The idea was to draw an object, a character or an idea using only the letters that make up its name. The word-pictures were published in albums (the most recent in 2024), and Jean Alessandrini used them as a source for several of his texts. But this creation is part of a wider history of art, a history of forms that has seen creators play with the tension or fusion between letter and image. This is also the history that the conference will attempt to trace.
Tue.25.02| 6:30pm | Lecture | Auditorium | Free | Reservation required
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