Maurice Lemaître Sculpture — Lettrist Totem, Centre Pompidou Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

A painted totem sculpture by Maurice Lemaître stands in the Centre Pompidou, Paris — red and black forms stacked into a figure that is part body, part typographic sign. The Lettrist movement made language into image and image into object; this piece pushes both directions at once. Geometric cuts and organic curves alternate up the column, the red burning against matte black under the gallery's flat light. The wall label behind it reads 'Lettrisme' — the movement named what the sculpture already is.