The Alphabet Trail. Script and Art

The exhibition "Els rastres de l'alfabet. Escriptura i art", that can be visited until May 25 at Sa Cooperativa de Sant Antoni de Portmany, offers an unusual vision of one of the most ancient communication tools: writing.

Organised by the Fundació "la Caixa", with the collaboration from the Ajuntament de Sant Antoni, the exhibition explains visually the evolution of writing and in particular the graphic evolution of letters, from the ideography writing until our alphabet.

The exhibition is in three parts:

1. Historic. It shows the most important stages of the evolution of writing upto the alphabet.

2. Graphic It synthesises, as from graphics, the changes in the written signs: from the pictograms upto the letters of the Latin alphabet.

3. Artistic. It presents the letter and writing in contemporary art. Works by Maria Carbonero, Ramon Canet, J Manuel Menéndez Rojas, Pep Canyelles and Josep Maria Sirvent.

Photo: Photographic reproduction of the manuscript code in textual Gothic script. Romeu des Poal, Llibre de Privilegis i Franqueses del Regne de Mallorca (1334-1339).

Date of publication: 26/04/2002

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