The Typotectural Suites – Alphabetum V

Description

In this coordinating project called ‘Palace of Typographic Masonry’ Niessen gives room to nine different themes, where various people (both literally and figuratively) help building a platform to experiment, to work together and to investigate. In ‘The Typotectural Suites’, the ambiguity between architecture and typography is examined, whilst relying on four categories. The aspects covered include, for instance, the abstract forms, the analogy in typography, the volume of letters and the context of the same. West Den Haag is very proud to present this new work of Richard Niessen in Alphabetum V.

The Alphabetum is an artistic space to explore the
formative and formal aspects of language. These aspects
are mostly considered separate. Typographers and typedesigners are primarily focused on the letterform and
writers mostly do not pay attention to the forms of the
letters they form into words. The ambition of the Alphabetum is to reveal that these two properties of written
language are much more interlinked than is commonly
acknowledged. A letter is a letter because it resembles
a letter; and because it resembles a letter it is a letter.