Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat exhibition catalog
Catalog for the exhibition Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, dedicated to the work of Francis Bacon. The publication references art books from the 1950s, featuring a color photograph inset into a bas-relief cradle on a Colorplus-coated cover, with the artist’s name and the top edge in silver hot stamping. Fold-out pages reveal Bacon’s sequential works, reinforcing the sense of repetition and variation present in the painter’s practice.
While the book draws on traditional art publishing formats, the typography is rooted in contemporary queer typographic research. DINdong by Clara Sambot and Adelphe by Eugénie Bidaut and Bye Bye Binary introduce forms that shift normative structures, creating a dialogue with the contrast between control and distortion present in Bacon’s work.
Captions pair DINdong with ABC Favorit.
