Just Ice
Hansjörg Mayer
1988
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Hansjörg 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 ...
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Just Ice
Hansjörg Mayer
1988
N.p.: Self-published
Unpaginated [342 pages]
24.8 × 17.3 cm
Unique; signed, dated and numbered “book 17”

Hansjörg 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 hansjörg mayer, 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. 

N.p.: Self-published
Unpaginated [342 pages]
24.8 × 17.3 cm
Unique; signed, dated and numbered “book 17”

Hansjörg 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 hansjörg mayer, 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. 

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Hansjörg 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 hansjörg mayer, 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. 

N.p.: Self-published
Unpaginated [342 pages]
24.8 × 17.3 cm
Unique; signed, dated and numbered “book 17”

Hansjörg 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 hansjörg mayer, 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. 

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Hansjörg 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 hansjörg mayer, 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. 

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