Buch 7 Quadratschnitte
Wolfgang Schmidt
1966
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Wolfgang Schmidt’s interactive book continues his long-running exploration of the square as a formal and conceptual framework. Built as a sequence of die-cut pages, each sheet is silkscreened in either red or black over a ...
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Buch 7 Quadratschnitte
Wolfgang Schmidt
1966
Frankfurt am Main: Typos Verlag
Unpaginated [48 pages]
26 × 26 cm
Edition of 100

Wolfgang Schmidt’s interactive book continues his long-running exploration of the square as a formal and conceptual framework. Built as a sequence of die-cut pages, each sheet is silkscreened in either red or black over a shifting white ground, creating a rhythm of contrast and variation as the book is turned. The result is a playful yet sculptural object in which squares and angular cuts constantly reconfigure the page. These rhomboid and geometric incisions evoke a sense of constructed space that is both precise and unstable.


 


In dialogue with the legacy of Malevich’s Black Square, Schmidt’s work revisits the idea of non-objective reality, not as a fixed abstraction but as something mutable and perceptual. The shifting forms suggest a visual system that is repeatedly reset and reactivated. Within Schmidt’s broader series Lebenszeichen (“signs of life”), this volume marks another iteration of his ongoing investigation into visual systems, where typography and form converge into a self-referential field that is at once conceptual and materially present.

Frankfurt am Main: Typos Verlag
Unpaginated [48 pages]
26 × 26 cm
Edition of 100

Wolfgang Schmidt’s interactive book continues his long-running exploration of the square as a formal and conceptual framework. Built as a sequence of die-cut pages, each sheet is silkscreened in either red or black over a shifting white ground, creating a rhythm of contrast and variation as the book is turned. The result is a playful yet sculptural object in which squares and angular cuts constantly reconfigure the page. These rhomboid and geometric incisions evoke a sense of constructed space that is both precise and unstable.

 

In dialogue with the legacy of Malevich’s Black Square, Schmidt’s work revisits the idea of non-objective reality, not as a fixed abstraction but as something mutable and perceptual. The shifting forms suggest a visual system that is repeatedly reset and reactivated. Within Schmidt’s broader series Lebenszeichen (“signs of life”), this volume marks another iteration of his ongoing investigation into visual systems, where typography and form converge into a self-referential field that is at once conceptual and materially present.

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Wolfgang Schmidt’s interactive book continues his long-running exploration of the square as a formal and conceptual framework. Built as a sequence of die-cut pages, each sheet is silkscreened in either red or black over a shifting white ground, creating a rhythm of contrast and variation as the book is turned. The result is a playful yet sculptural object in which squares and angular cuts constantly reconfigure the page. These rhomboid and geometric incisions evoke a sense of constructed space that is both precise and unstable.

 

In dialogue with the legacy of Malevich’s Black Square, Schmidt’s work revisits the idea of non-objective reality, not as a fixed abstraction but as something mutable and perceptual. The shifting forms suggest a visual system that is repeatedly reset and reactivated. Within Schmidt’s broader series Lebenszeichen (“signs of life”), this volume marks another iteration of his ongoing investigation into visual systems, where typography and form converge into a self-referential field that is at once conceptual and materially present.

Frankfurt am Main: Typos Verlag
Unpaginated [48 pages]
26 × 26 cm
Edition of 100

Wolfgang Schmidt’s interactive book continues his long-running exploration of the square as a formal and conceptual framework. Built as a sequence of die-cut pages, each sheet is silkscreened in either red or black over a shifting white ground, creating a rhythm of contrast and variation as the book is turned. The result is a playful yet sculptural object in which squares and angular cuts constantly reconfigure the page. These rhomboid and geometric incisions evoke a sense of constructed space that is both precise and unstable.

 

In dialogue with the legacy of Malevich’s Black Square, Schmidt’s work revisits the idea of non-objective reality, not as a fixed abstraction but as something mutable and perceptual. The shifting forms suggest a visual system that is repeatedly reset and reactivated. Within Schmidt’s broader series Lebenszeichen (“signs of life”), this volume marks another iteration of his ongoing investigation into visual systems, where typography and form converge into a self-referential field that is at once conceptual and materially present.

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Wolfgang Schmidt’s interactive book continues his long-running exploration of the square as a formal and conceptual framework. Built as a sequence of die-cut pages, each sheet is silkscreened in either red or black over a shifting white ground, creating a rhythm of contrast and variation as the book is turned. The result is a playful yet sculptural object in which squares and angular cuts constantly reconfigure the page. These rhomboid and geometric incisions evoke a sense of constructed space that is both precise and unstable.

 

In dialogue with the legacy of Malevich’s Black Square, Schmidt’s work revisits the idea of non-objective reality, not as a fixed abstraction but as something mutable and perceptual. The shifting forms suggest a visual system that is repeatedly reset and reactivated. Within Schmidt’s broader series Lebenszeichen (“signs of life”), this volume marks another iteration of his ongoing investigation into visual systems, where typography and form converge into a self-referential field that is at once conceptual and materially present.

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