Au pied de la lettre. Catalogue signs of an immemorial animal

signs of an immemorial animal presence

” The release of this book will coincide with a major exhibition of the artist’s works at the Galerie Lelong & Co

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7

and a lively and constant curiosity for observing people—both anonymous and public figures—in their environment appear as the common threads of a prolific body of work

By combining witnesses from many horizons

Au pied de la lettre. Catalogue signs of an immemorial animalFaced with this organic alphabet, where the characters are alive and now indomitable, Bernard Nol asks: Isn't it shocking to think that if, since its origin, the world was visible to man, it took millennia to make it speakable, and many more centuries to make speech readable and therefore visual through writing. And most simply through the invention of the alphabet, which dates back only three thousand years. The alphabet that succeeds with so few