Anonymous Engravings on Ecstasy Pills
Artist: Frédéric Post
Designer: Izet Sheshivari
Hardcover, 544 Pages
Offset 15.4 × 23.2 cm
First Edition 2009
ISBN 978-2-940409-02-0
Out of print
The engravings reproduce in “Anonymous Engravings on Ecstasy Pills” were designed by unknown people who abandoned them. In this book of drawings, Frédéric Post offers a piece of research worthy of a modern-times archaeologist. He collected and re-created these figures, conferring thus value to an underground iconography of over 500 signs. The classification of the drawings into three groups (figures, typography, symbols) was carried out with Izet Sheshivari, in remembrance of the work of Hans Rudolf Lutz. This collection shows elements of a visual folklore that hints at popular figures. All the copies feature a loporello embossing with all the figures. The book is publish with the support of the Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève, Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council. We extend our thanks to Istituto Svizzero in Roma.