Hyungkoo Lee: The Homo Species
Exhibition catalog
offset lithograph, sewn in sections and cased with foil- and blind-stamped cover
210 x 276 mm, 96 pp
- Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name presented at the Korean Pavilion, 52nd International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
- ISBN 978-89-957810-8-1 97600
- Text in English, French, and Korean
- 35,000 won
The book is structured along the two broad categories of Lee Hyungkoo’s work: optical devices and fictitious fossil skeleton sculptures. The former exude an air of absurd precision and sinister obsession, while the pseudo-evolutionist sculptures in the latter category could plausibly be exhibits in a parallel universe’s natural history museum. The dual structure is reflected by the two different typographic styles employed in the book: the clean, almost hygienic Swiss modernism and the archaic, centered arrangement loosely based on the typography of the first edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
- Project type:
- publication
- Typeset in:
- Bodoni
- Helvetica Textbook
- Yoon Gothic
- Printed on:
- Be Seven
- Magic Color
- Printed by:
- Top Process
- Commissioned by:
- Ahn Soyeon
- Arts Council Korea
- Lee Hyungkoo
- Specter Press
