{"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","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/just-ice","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}