{"title":"Hansjörg Mayer","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"just-ice","title":"Just Ice","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHansjörg Mayer, an artist, printer, teacher, and publisher was a central figure in Concrete Poetry and the experimental scene of the 1960s. Through his innovative approaches to typography and printing technology, as well as his influential edition \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehansjörg mayer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, he expanded the conceptual horizons of the artist’s book as a medium in its own right. In this work, Mayer transforms printing into a process of gradual disappearance, inviting the viewer to witness the complete erosion of an alphabet. The final relief-printed page appears to preserve the accidental arrangement of the overturned letters, capturing the moment when the alphabet collapsed into silence—or, as Mayer suggests in his title, melted “just [like] ice.” Printed until the final letter fell, the book concludes with a complete blank page, turning the act of printing itself into a meditation on the dissolution of all traces and signs. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54055587348819,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/JustIce.png?v=1782029193"},{"product_id":"futura-1-bis-13","title":"Futura 1 bis 13","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduced by poet and printer Hansjörg Mayer in Stuttgart between 1965 and 1968, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efutura” series explored the poetic potential of typography through a sequence of 26 broadsides. Each issue featured an exercise in style by a different artist or poet, who was given complete freedom to experiment with the expressive possibilities of language-based art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe broadsides were subsequently issued in two collectible volumes, each comprising 13 works. The first volume brings together contributions by Mathias Goeritz, Klaus Burkhardt, Max Bense, Reinhard Döhl, Louis Zukofsky, Bohumila Grögerová, Josef Hiršal, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Claus Bremer, Augusto de Campos, Edward Lucie-Smith, Dieter Roth, Emmett Williams, and Frieder Nake, offering a remarkable survey of the international concrete and experimental poetry movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54144732791123,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Futura1.png?v=1782830888"},{"product_id":"futura-14-bis-26","title":"Futura 14 bis 26","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduced by poet and printer Hansjörg Mayer in Stuttgart between 1965 and 1968, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efutura” series explored the poetic potential of typography through a sequence of 26 broadsides. Each issue featured an exercise in style by a different artist or poet, who was given complete freedom to experiment with the expressive possibilities of language-based art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe broadsides were subsequently issued in two collectible volumes, each comprising 13 works. The second volume brings together contributions by Carlo Belloli, Jonathan Williams, Hiro Kamimura, Wolfgang Schmidt, Pierre Garnier, Bob Cobbing, Edwin Morgan, Dick Higgins, Wolf Vostell, Herman de Vries, Peter Schmidt, Andre Thomkins, and Robert Filliou, offering a remarkable survey of the international concrete and experimental poetry movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54150285066579,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Futura2.png?v=1782892872"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/hansjorg-mayer.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}