“Helvetica”, my work created for the 2014 Textfestival in Bury (Greater Manchester), UK May 1-2, 2014. This piece, made by hand one letter at a time, was made directly on the walls of the Bury Art Gallery solely from examples of the typeface Helvetica…
The Canadian experimental poet derek beaulieu’s Helvetica is the most attention-seeking contribution to […] a churning typographical extravaganza, applied directly to the gallery wall from ageing sheets of Letraset type, now hard to find. beaulieu’s wall poem defiantly faces a Victorian painting from the museum collection of Dante daydreaming, by Sir Joseph Noel Paton. According to Trehy, ‘the Festival is not about poetry, it’s not a poetry festival’, and a recent collection of beaulieu’s work is called Please, No More Poetry…
(David Briers, excerpted from Text Festival review, Art Monthly, issue no. 377)
awesome!! saw it on tumblr the other day and now here, I think it’s great.