Henri Michaux – Combat de lignes at Natalie Seroussi

Parisian art gallery Natalie Seroussi hosts an exhibition of the work of Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter Henri Michaux (1899–1984), with a focus on ink and pencil drawings.

The exhibition communication and accompanying printed catalog were designed by Doc Levin / Léo Quetglas. The title as well as all texts and poems from Henri Michaux are set in Benjamin Dumond’s Michaux, an homage to the artist’s work. When Henri Michaux explored a loss of control in the production of written shapes through the use of narcotics, the typeface relies on computer scripts for the same purpose. Benjamin Dumond wrote a program to generate thousands of random three-stroke signs, then proceeded to subjectively select those which looked most like letters, numbers and other glyphs.

All captions and supporting info are set in Avenir.