Bücher von Michalis Pichler

Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard (Sculpture) (A Throw of the Dice Will Never AbolishChance) is a close copy of the 1914 edition of French symbolist Stéphane Mallarmé's poem of thesame name, but with all the words cut out by laser. Published sixteen years after the death ofthe poet, Un coup de dés became famous for its intimate combination of free verse and unusualtypographic layout. The twenty-page-long poem anticipated the interest in graphic design andconcrete poetry that emerged in the twentieth century.The preface of Michalis Pichler's version of Mallarmé's masterpiece features the entire poemwritten as a block of text with each line separated by a slash ( / ). Twelve double spreads follow,with immaculately cut-out windows standing in for the text. As you turn the pages, numerousshadows are generated by the cut-outs.The first edition of Michalis Pichler was published in 2008 and quickly sold out. This new editionmakes the artist book accessible again.Michalis Pichler is an artist operating on both sides of the imaginary border between visual artand literature and one of the founders and organizers of Miss Read and Conceptual Poetics Day.A monograph of his work was co-published by Spector Books and Printed Matter, Inc