Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain
Paris (France)
Utopia, 2001
Utopia – a set of characters related to the letters of the alphabet – comments on the clash between control and chaos in Brazilian cities. In capital letters, the formal concision of the iconic buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer; in small letters, the confusion of poles, wires, gratings, dumpsters, billboards, sentry boxes, surveillance cameras, images so often seen in our urban landscapes.
A fragment of Utopia, by Thomas More, composed using the font created by the artists, exemplifies
this contrast.
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list of works
Affective Urban Archeology, 2011
Always Something Between Us,
2012 to 2014Av. Celso Garcia 2004/2014,
2004 and 2014Floating Letters – Mapping of the Sign Painters, 2014
From the Obliterado [Obliterated] series, 2012
Half-Mile Apartment/House City/
Flow House, 2014I <3 Peddler, 2009 and Sand Strip, 2009
Parking City, 2012 and Parking.ttf, 2012
Pixação: São Paulo Signature, 2004
list of authors
photo: Maíra Acayaba
about the authors
The linguist Angela Detanico and the typographer Rafael Lain, both from Caxias do Sul (RS), work with the core subject of writing, reading and translation. Their creations focus on the representation of time and space, crossing poetry, sound and image. The artists live in Paris and some of their artwork are translated to many other languages and exhibited in countries such as Portugal and Japan. They were awarded the Nam June Paik prize in 2004 and represented Brazil at Venice Biennial in 2007.
