DRURY BRENNAN
CONTEMPORARY CALLIGRAPHY ARTIST AND CERAMICIST
This site was created as a final project for an Art History class at Kalamazoo College - Art Since 1945, taught by Dr. Christine Hann, Fall 2014
Letters Are My Friends Gallery, Berlin, 2013
Brennan completed this piece shortly after he moved to Berlin. "Letters Are My Friends" is a typography / design co-working space run by a woman named Nina who is a large supporter of Brennan’s work. It’s a “place where analogue and digital type meet with emerging technologies.” (http://www.lettersaremyfriends.com/)
“We talked a lot about me writing on the facade of LAMF (which is a big honor in the typography community in Berlin), and it finally got to happen!” (Brennan 2014). The piece remained up for about a year.
This installation is unique among much of Brennan’s other work in two key ways. The small calligraphy text is part of a larger image and message – whereas much of his other large work remains abstract in its structure and legibility. Secondly, there is a direct translation provided for the calligraphy letters further creating access to the work by passersby.
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About Letters Are My Friends
"In general we love to show interdisciplinary stuff, which you might not find and see in casual galeries: prototypes, set up installations specially developed to fit in our showroom space or conceptual remixes of things which already happened in another context or never happened before!It’s all about the right intersections & combinations of old and new technics. Aswell: As “higher” the technology gets, as more we – on the other hand- jump back to the analogue ways of producing letters by hand or calligraphy or “oldschool” traditional art in general."