{"title":"Book, Script \u0026 Sign","description":"\u003cp\u003eConceptual prints and painting on language, medium and reality: the script figures “Buch \u0026amp; Mensch” and “Drucksache Mensch” (signed, limited sheets) as well as the “Alphaleiter”.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"buch-mensch-trager-des-blattes","title":"Buchmensch – Bearer of the Leaf","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHand-coloured lithograph · 40 × 30 cm · signed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA figure assembled from letterforms carries a leaf across the open book – language becomes body, the medium becomes image. On grey-beige paper, signed and inscribed by the artist at lower right. Closely related in motif to the key work “Drucksache Mensch”: together, the two sheets form the heart of the Buch \u0026amp; Mensch group of works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBackground\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eScript as a pictorial element developed a tradition of its own in 20th-century art. In his Calligrammes, published in 1918, Guillaume Apollinaire arranged lines of verse into pictorial figures, and the concrete poetry of the 1950s, such as Eugen Gomringer’s constellations of 1953, treated the typeset word itself as visual material. In such script-pictures, text becomes legible twice over: as a verbal statement and as a constructed form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-signed, limited-edition sheet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned certificate of authenticity SCHERO × LytraG\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorldwide, insured art shipping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"SCHERO × LytraG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58643284459868,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/6109\/9356\/files\/schero-buch-und-mensch.jpg?v=1786631004"},{"product_id":"drucksache-mensch-figur-aus-schrift","title":"Drucksache Mensch – Figure Composed of Script","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHand-coloured lithograph with red stamp print · 40 × 30 cm · signed, numbered and dated\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA human silhouette, set entirely in letterforms, strides across the “Book of Reality” – the human being as printed matter, a sign that can be read and misread. On grey-beige paper, numbered, signed and dated at lower right. The key work of the Buch \u0026amp; Mensch group of works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBackground\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigures made of letters stand in a long tradition of joining script and image. In his Calligrammes of 1918, Guillaume Apollinaire let lines of poetry come together into recognisable shapes, and the concrete poetry of the 1950s, shaped in part by Eugen Gomringer’s constellations of 1953, made the printed word itself an artistic material. The German term Schriftbild describes this double nature: a text that is read and, at the same time, seen as form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-signed, limited-edition sheet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned certificate of authenticity SCHERO × LytraG\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInsured worldwide art shipping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"SCHERO × LytraG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58643285934428,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/6109\/9356\/files\/schero-drucksache-mensch.jpg?v=1786631017"},{"product_id":"alphaleiter","title":"Alphaleiter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixed media on board · 160 × 140 cm · signed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA white ladder ascends and becomes the letter alpha: beginning, ascent and sign united in a single image. The “Alphaleiter” connects the artist’s script-based works with a clear, almost emblematic pictorial idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBackground\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and derives from the Phoenician aleph. In visual tradition, the ladder has stood for ascent and for the link between earth and heaven for centuries; the best-known example is Jacob’s ladder from the Book of Genesis. The motif thus joins a letterform and a symbol of ascent into an image of beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned certificate of authenticity SCHERO × LytraG\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocumented provenance directly from the artist’s studio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInsured fine art shipping worldwide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcquisition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Enquiries and reservations to \u003ca href=\"mailto:info@lytrag.com\"\u003einfo@lytrag.com\u003c\/a\u003e. 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The series works with the visual language of advertising and, through overpainting, carries it into another reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe series is only available complete; individual sheets are not sold separately.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned certificate of authenticity SCHERO × LytraG\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocumented provenance directly from the artist’s studio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorldwide, insured art transport\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcquisition:\u003c\/strong\u003e The price applies to the complete series of forty sheets. 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The image lives from the light passing through it and comes into its own in a darkened setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned certificate of authenticity SCHERO × LytraG\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocumented provenance directly from the artist’s studio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorldwide, insured art transport\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcquisition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Price on request – \u003ca href=\"mailto:info@lytrag.com\"\u003einfo@lytrag.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Herbert Schero","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58770766627164,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/6109\/9356\/files\/schero-buch-der-traeume-leuchtkasten.jpg?v=1787506831"},{"product_id":"unikatbucher","title":"Unikatbücher – One-of-a-Kind Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixed media on handmade paper · formats between 40 × 30 cm and 30 × 20 cm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than 200 motifs exist. 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