Modern Optical Experiments in Typography
Univers Ultra Light Oblique (1968)
- Publisher
- Emily Carr University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2006
- Category
- General, Contemporary (1945-)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9783905770049
- Publish Date
- Jan 2006
- List Price
- $39.50
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Description
This collaborative project by Mark Soo and Tim Lee formally pushes the boundaries of what a book is. The book is blank except for four printed pages containing the text ‘Think', ‘Fast', ‘Hip', and ‘pies' set in Univers. Focusing on the year 1968, the artists pull seemingly disparate events together. 1968 was an important year in hippie subculture and it was also around this time that Bruce Nauman made his seminal piece Pay Attention Fucker and the year Dan Graham wrote Eisenhower and the Hippies.
Tim Lee is a Vancouver artist with a growing international reputation. Since graduating from UBC in 2002, Lee has shown his work at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Seattle Art Museum, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco, the National Gallery in Prague, the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland, Musee d'Art Contemporain in Montréal, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp in Belgium. He has had solo exhibitions at the Or Gallery, YYZ in Toronto, Cohan and Leslie in New York, the Lisson Gallery in London, and Tracey Lawrence Gallery. Lee's work is included in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate Modern in London.
Mark Soo graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr Institute in 2001. Since then, he has exhibited locally and internationally in group exhibitions at the Leroy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University in New York, Cornerhouse in Manchester, Westspace in Melbourne, the Western Front in Vancouver, and Cohan and Leslie in New York.
