Writing by Drawing

A book about the shadow side of writing, with asemic art by Mirtha Dermisache, Jean Dubuffet, Brion Gysin, Susan Hiller, Henri Michaux and more

Looking at the rich tradition of art, from the early 20th century to the present, in which writing sheds its communicative function and pursues the inarticulable, Writing by Drawing explores the fertile tension between the semantic and the uncharted territory of automatism, mark-making and scribbles--the "asemic."

Artists include: Douglas Abdell, Vincenzo Accame, Rosaire Appel, Tchello d'Barros, Gianfranco Baruchello, Tomaso Binga, Irma Blank, Nick Blinko, Alighiero Boetti, Marcia Brauer, Fr d ric Bruly Bouabr , Elijah Burgher, Axel Calatayud, Gaston Chaissac, Laura Cingolani, Guy de Cointet, Alo se Corbaz, Dadamaino, Betty Danon, Hanne Darboven, Michel Dave, Michael Dean, Mirtha Dermisache, Emmanuel Derriennic, Jean Dubuffet, Giordano Falzoni, Le n Ferrari, Chiara Fumai, Pepe Gait n, Jill Galli ni, Ryan Gander, Anne-Marie Gbindoun, Marco Giovenale, Rafael Gonz lez, Giorgio Griffa, Mariangela Guatteri, Gustav, Elisabetta Gut, Brion Gysin, Ana Hatherly, Emma Hauck, Takanori Herai, Joseph Heuer, Susan Hiller, Steffani Jemison, Carlo Keshishian, Henri Michaux, Miriam Midley, Bruno Munari and more.

About the Authors

Andrea Bellini is an Italian and Swiss curator and contemporary art critic based in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2012 he is director of the Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve and artistic director of the Biennial of moving images.

Sarah Lombardi, art historian, has been appointed Director of the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne from March 2013.