Mark Laliberte
BRICKBRICKBRICK
offset edition: 500
2-colour interior / 128pgs, perfect-bound, 7.5"H x 4.5W"
Afterword by Angela Szczepaniak
Published by BookThug
This collection presents a series of visual meditations on the subject of “ poetics”. Like much of Laliberte's recent output, this project hovers around – but never quite steps into – the cultural zone that pure, popular comics inhabit.
The hybrid “texts” presented here (slowly developed from 2001-08), appropriate and invade the hand-made illustrative markings of different illustrators or cartoonists, as they draw bricks – usually in the backgrounds of city scenes. Each drawn source is pulled forward and stripped of all signs of their original narrative intent. In a process that is metaphorically connected to the careful manipulation of written words on a page, each work is digitally constructed – brick-by-brick – into new and distinct walls that the reader will likely enjoy hitting up against.
REVIEWS: 01 | 02 | 03 | 04
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS: 01| 02
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