Alain Arias-Misson – Concretism künstlerbuch While living behind the Iron

While living behind the Iron Curtain

Katia Baudin

engage in poetry as a process of constructing verses by moving the letters accross the pages

der nun erstmalig als Verlagspublikation vorliegt

was sich normalerweise hinter dem typografischen Vorhang des Textes verbirgt: das Buch selbst

Alain Arias-Misson – Concretism künstlerbuch While living behind the IronHerausgegeben und mit einem Text von Edited and with a text by Christoph Benjamin Schulz The poem Concretism, created in 2023, is the result of Arias Missons preoccupation with concrete poetry since the early 1960s. In the course of the book, which consists of seven chapters, each comprising six pages, seven verses are composed in a very literal sense. The individual panels of the cycle show miniature portraits of the artist originally made in the