Au pied de la lettre. Catalogue signs of an immemorial animal

signs of an immemorial animal presence

de nos habitudes

By combining witnesses from many horizons

” The release of this book will coincide with a major exhibition of the artist’s works at the Galerie Lelong & Co

Au pied de la lettre. Catalogue signs of an immemorial animalFaced with this organic alphabet, where the characters are alive and now indomitable, Bernard Nol asks: Isn't it shocking to think that if, since its origin, the world was visible to man, it took millennia to make it speakable, and many more centuries to make speech readable and therefore visual through writing. And most simply through the invention of the alphabet, which dates back only three thousand years. The alphabet that succeeds with so few