Philip Poppek
cris d’oiseaux, horizon
14.7 – 11.8.2018
stadium
Potsdamer Straße 70
10785 Berlin
The entire catalogue raisonné of the painter is scanned and an archive of
all contained word paintings is created. The archive is subjected to an
automated vectorization process. Painted images are photographed on film grain
or chip, printed as a raster image in the catalogue, converted into vector
graphics by an algorithmic process. This way the paintings become logos. The
font is separated from the images, cut in individual letters
and transferred to a new catalogue. This results in a large archive of single
letters of the painter. An alphabet is to be created. From A-Z. An alphabet of
the painter who dedicated himself to the difference between the pictures, words
and things, becomes an alphabet of differences between sounds and signs. A as
deputy for the alphabet. The apple as a substitute for the A. All letters as
substitute for the constant performance of difference between things. A poem
with some necessary questions. As a letter. Read.
And here, too:
A bird call on the horizon, pointing to a stone rolling down a wooded hill.
