Zeichen - Zeichen Ii - Zeichen Iii Visuelle Gedichte -Zeichen Iv Visuelle Gedichte Heinz Gappmayr

Complete set of 4 artist’s books + 2 suites of visual poems each SIGNED and DATED on the back. 1) ZEICHEN - Pinguin Verlag, Innsbruk, 1962. Set of 29 signed and dated visual poems each SIGNED and DATED on the back contained in 22 folders. 15,8x15,8 cm. (Signs of presence of adhesive tape on the front. Suite in excellent condition). 2) ZEICHEN II - Pinguin Verlag, Innsbruk, 1964. SIGNED AND DEDICATED. Ex. n. 37/100. With set of 22 visual poems each SIGNED and DATED on the back. 15,8x15,8 cm. Book and suite in good condition. 3) ZEICHEN III. VISUELLE GEDICHTE + invitation card. Jurgen-Willing, Munchen, 1968. SIGNED AND DEDICATED. Ex. n. 18/200 15,8x15,8 cm. Good Condition. 4) ZEICHEN IV. VISUELLE GEDICHTE - Sema Verlag, Karlsruhe, 1970. 17x16,5 cm. Fair. In the 1960s, Heinz Gappmayr’s work became part of a fairly specialized art scene with the first publications and exhibitions. In 1962 "Zeichen" was released, a small volume of one-word poems, all linked to aspects of the concrete perception of a typewritten text. "Zeichen II" followed in 1964, again a one-word book, "sind". Later came "Zeichen III. Visuelle Gedichte "(1968) and" Zeichen IV. Visuelle Gedichte "(1970). The 1960s and 1970s were therefore seminal for the analytical, linguistic and artistic work of Heinz Gappmayr, an era that generally led to a process of "purification". With the denial of poetry, language is used as a pure object of art, as a mental image composed of meticulously selected verbal or non-verbal elements or signs. Letters, words, terms, lines, characters, punctuation are deposited on the surface where space and time are formed only together with the reader.