MAYO BUCHER/OPEN SIGN

This richly illustrated book explores for the first time the breadth and the depth of the work created in the period 1992 - 2002 by the Swiss artist Mayo Bucher (born Zurich, 1963). Bucher’s abstract, geometrically inflected yet painterly art is able to function on a refreshing variety of levels, creating a complex yet lucid world of structure and colour, forms and signs. It is a world that embraces the relations of painting to design, architecture and music - relations central to the art of Mayo Bucher.

In recent years, Bucher’s striking imagery has appeared on the covers of ECM Records, considered by many to be the most distinguished independent record company in the world.

OPEN SIGN speaks clearly and deeply of our compulsion both to construct and question meaning: of the endless quest of human consciousness for clarity of expression and understanding - and of our saving need of mystery.

With essays by Ruedi Baur, Paris-based designer, theorist and Professor of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst HGB, Leipzig, and Dr. Michael Tucker, Professor of Poetics in the School of Historical and Critical Studies at the Faculty of Arts & Architecture, University of Brighton.

ISBN 3-907078-93-4 www.lars-mueller-publishers.com