Michael Dean – mountains and triangles
Published by Forma, 2006
Other Plans is curated by Simon Morrissey
In his latest bookwork, artist Michael Dean uses the barest language and starkly minimal typography to create an almost physical linguistic space that becomes charged with an unexpected emotional impact. Rooted in the apparently mundane minutiae of everyday life, mountains and triangles is intensely visual. Occupying only the far corner of each page, Dean’s blunt descriptions of women, objects, interiors and fragments of landscapes, float like memories caught temporarily in the book’s sparsely populated pages.
Yet despite their staccato simplicity and austere appearance, the texts seduce the reader with their distinct cadence and hypnotic rhythm, creating the impression of an intensely personal, sensory engagement with the world.
Published with Juan Cruz – a translation of Niebla (fog) by Miguel de Unamuno, as part of Other Plans, this new artists’ bookwork comes with a critical essay by the project’s curator Simon Morrissey.
All texts in English
185mm x 120mm, 320 pages, softback + 10 page critical essay by
Simon Morrissey
ISBN: 0-9548288-3-6
Price £8.00 | €12 (£15.00 | €22.50 for Other Plans set – Juan Cruz & Michael Dean)
Related links
Michael Dean
Other Plans: bookworks by Juan Cruz and Michael Dean
Juan Cruz – a translation of Niebla (fog)
Download
Other Plans essay by Simon Morrissey (PDF, 48.1 KB)
Other Plans is commissioned by Forma,
and funded by Arts Council England and Bristol School of Art, Media & Design, University of the West of England
Photography: Adam Laycock
