Avec Dotremont au pays des logoneiges (Caroline Ghyselen)
On May 4, 1976, Christian Dotremont (poet, visual artist, calligrapher and founder of the Cobra group), 54, left for Lapland accompanied by a young art historian, Caroline Ghyselen.
The book, published by Les Évadés du Poème 2 and limited to 500 numbered copies, retraces this extraordinary journey for the first time. It is the notebook of their trip to the land of “logoneiges”. I designed this project in a subtle balance between text, travel images and reproductions of Dotremont's works.
Chapter pages and breaths punctuate the story, and a discreet play on color, tone on tone, creates a subtle atmosphere. The visuals are integrated in such a way as to dialogue with the text, creating a fluidity that accompanies the narrative evolution across the pages.
“The logogram is not abstract and never will be, it is not a free gesture, it is dominated by a meaning. Moreover, I am not as free as those who do the abstract, my thinking is at the base. Plus, I can never go back on what I'm doing and that's also why there's a lot of waste.”— Christian Dotremont
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O Lapland, so far away, where everything is so close, even the beginning
Story of a journey where the poetic message and creative freedom are written in pristine spaces.
On May 4, 1976, Christian Dotremont (poet, visual artist, calligrapher and founder of the Cobra group), 54, left for Lapland accompanied by a young art historian, Caroline Ghyselen.
The book, published by Les Évadés du Poème 2 and limited to 500 numbered copies, retraces this extraordinary journey for the first time. It is the notebook of their trip to the land of “logoneiges”. I designed this project in a subtle balance between text, travel images and reproductions of Dotremont's works.
Chapter pages and breaths punctuate the story, and a discreet play on color, tone on tone, creates a subtle atmosphere. The visuals are integrated in such a way as to dialogue with the text, creating a fluidity that accompanies the narrative evolution across the pages.
“The logogram is not abstract and never will be, it is not a free gesture, it is dominated by a meaning. Moreover, I am not as free as those who do the abstract, my thinking is at the base. Plus, I can never go back on what I'm doing and that's also why there's a lot of waste.”— Christian Dotremont
