TYPED

05 March - 05 April 2008
35 Heddon Street, London W1

The artists in TYPED use the typewriter in a myriad of ways. Some use it as a way of investigating language: works by Carl Andre form part of a long history in concrete poetry; Christopher Knowles' obsessive works on paper using a 1980s electric typewriter involve idiosyncratic linguistics and simple designs; Sue Tompkins layers and repeats words to sometimes hypnotic effect. Others capitalise on the virtual obsolescence of the tool: Frances Stark’s carbon copies of type by hand inadvertently invite blemish while Janice Kerbel’s love letters pay homage to the Underwood brand of the machine. In other instances the distinctly everyday typewriter font adds prosaic humour as in Lowe and Thomson’s 'The Harang-Utang Letters 1993-1999'. Curiously versatile, the typewriter has also been used more figuratively as in Dirk Krecker's dense landscapes, the flickering creations of a techno-dandy. TYPED also includes other works by Angela Bulloch, Liam Gillick, Cerith Wyn Evans, Adam McEwen and Richard Prince.