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"Every graphematic sign carries an a priori iconic
sense,
regardless of its word role and phonetic/sound value.
Writing and reading are handled separately by the brain.
Reading involves recognition. Writing involves
retrieving and generating the parts from memory, recurrent
construction. The artist tends to reverse the inverse
relation of presence and absence, where, to appear semantically,
a sign must disappear materially – the phonetic metaphor
where
the iconicity of the sign is neutralized -, as the artist
is seduced
by the signifier, instead of by the message (Jean Abelanet’s
"signs without words"). In fact, the word usually
anchors the
meaning of the graphic sign, countering the terror of
the
uncertain signifier (Barthes), iterability being a prerequisite
for
any symbolic order". (Stefan Arteni)
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