moma.

Last Sunday I spent the day at the MoMA. There is an exhibit up by Latin American artists León Ferrari and Mira Schendel called tangled alphabets. They "use language not merely as a vehicle for expressing concepts of ideas but as an almost physical medium to shape and mold." They each used letters as form, not necessarily content. It is beautiful work. Mira played a lot with transparent materials, big squares of thick acrylic with letters and thin paper embedded in the material. The work is very simple and clean - using typography instead of paint.