AlpiTypes: letters images traces

This graphic production, frequently of outstanding quality, for the most part consists of posters, books and magazines that represent a largely unknown cultural asset. The authors of these items formed part of a lively and diverse cultural environment that absorbed and creatively developed European trends of the time.

Students at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano have taken on this topic and translated it into contemporary form, starting from what are in part only fragmentary traces, such as incomplete alphabets.

The exhibition displays selected historical materials, either as originals or as reproductions. They invite visitors to rediscover a hidden graphic heritage, a network of unexpected connections, forgotten forms and typographic design techniques that, even after almost one hundred years, retain an astonishing expressiveness and topicality.

The main part of the exhibition, located on the third floor of the Kunsthaus, is dedicated to projects by the students, whose work succeeds in reinterpreting and shedding new light on a graphic heritage that has scarcely been explored to date.

AlpiTypes pursues an innovative approach that combines historical research, digital reconstruction and design practice. This “typographical archaeology” is not limited to the mere recovery of the material evidence of the past, but further proposes a lively and creative reactivation, one that is adapted to the present day.

Students:

Leonore Antonia Aigner, Chantal Renee Adam, Teodora Andreea Alexa, Alba Lucia Aviles Semjevski, Gesa Martha Bachmann, Giulia Barp, Letizia Bazzanella, Nikolas Josef Bedin, Diego Belci, Irene Besana, Delia Bianchi, Caroline Bluml, Zaccaria Boschetti, Martina Brafa, Lara Calearo, Tommaso Capobianco, Argentina Carrino, Lorenzo Cogotti, Beatrice Cuccia, Eleonora Dal Cin, Matteo Dal Pra, Angela Dal Zotto, Anna Daniele, Hannes Decker, Rosa De Haen, Ettore Della Marina, Alessandro De Lillo, Mariasara D’Errico, Francesco Desimine, Lorenzo Del Forno, Deniz Demirer, Edoardo Donzelli, Damian Engl, Sofia Ferrari, Sebastian Fiacco, Marianna Franceschi, Maddalena Franco, Anna Gagliotti, Theo Gohm, Lara Ellen Guttieres, Adisa Habibovic, Julian Hu, Maria Vittoria Imparato, Rocco Jager, Laura Jenewein, Jan Kacer, Lena Keller, Theo Kortschak, Paula Luisa Kottmeyer, Magdalena Leipold, Francesco Lorenzani, Federico Lorenzi, Marco Vito Lovascio, Gioele Maines, Cecilia Mariani, Valentin Marcotto, Nikolaos Mavropoulos, Anastasia Mitkovic, Riccardo Montel, Arianna Moretto, Caterina Murari, Isabella Emi Nakamizu Wiesen, Simon Nisini, Nina Novalic, Magdalena Etzl, Stefanie Feiertag, Filippo Oro, Giulia Ottone, Olivia Lauren Palma, Joost Pantelmann, Clara Isabel Peulecke, Denise Pichler, Theo Pietracupa, Camilla Pizzolitto, Elina Pratter, Cord Raymond Rahemipour, Emily Rampado, Velia Nives Tiziana Riedt, Francesco Rocco, Victoria Rocciola, Diego Rochira, Rikus Maarten Roeling, Teresa Ronchin, Mari Margarita Saenger, Fedir Samofalov, Maddalena Sartori, Berrit Schindler, Sonja Sieder, Jakob Simmerle, Lucia Stallone, Lara Giulia Sonnergren, Caterina Tonini, Beatrice Veneziano, Teti Vismara, Andreas Wieser, Holly Joyce Williams, Loretta Zago, Sofia Zamagni, Mariya Zorina

interpret:

Luis Alton, Giuseppe Anders, Heinrich Caesar Berann, Joseph Binder, Gino Boccasile, Adolf Boehm, Luigi Bonazza, Duilio Bottari, Aldo Calza, Gino Caregaro Negrin, Ugo Claus, Piero Coelli, Arduino Colato, Achille Dal Lago, Fortunato Depero, Marcello Dudovich, Fritz Erler, Max von Esterle, Dario Fozzer, Lois Gaigg, Tony Grubhofer, Oswald Haller, Eduard von Handel-Mazzetti, Wolfgang Heigl, Anton Hofer, Leo Sebastian Humer, Gustav Jahn, Hans Kalmsteiner, Hermann Kosel, Walter Kuhn, Franz Lenhart, Alexander Erwin Merlet, Wolfgang Oegg, Schipani (Ottorino Paschi), Enrico Pedrotti, Karl Pferschy, Wilhelm Nicolaus Prachensky, Erwin Puchinger, Luigi Ratini, Giuseppe Riccobaldi del Bava, Carl Rieder, Domenico Rudatis, Max Schammler, Ettorre Sottsass Sr., Hrast Svetozar, Erich Torggler, Johannes Troyer, G. Verda, Silvio Vitti, Hanns Wagula, Joseph Heinrich Weber, Hasn Josef Weber-Tyrol, Giorgio Wenter Marini, Dario Wolf sowie unbekannte Urheber*innen.