FOOR AZART – FAIRGROUND AZART

You can write words and sentences by connecting one line to another. An AZART connoisseur can decipher the text, but it is also just a captivating image. Even the most serious text takes on a celebratory character. Would you like to try it yourself? See www.azart.be (where you will also discover the sounds of AZART).

Guy Rombouts: “Azart Kermis, Azartfoor, Draaiazart, Azartroundabout, Fairgroundazart or maybe you can think of a better name.” These possible titles make it clear that in this sculpture, the artists were creating a very dynamic version of their alphabet: Language in motion.

Belgian contemporary artist Guy Rombouts is fascinated by language and writing, and found its visual side particularly compelling. In 1983 he invented his own alphabet, ‘het Rombouts’, from 1986 he works in collaboration with his partner and visual artist Monica Droste. They renamed ‘het Rombouts’ to ‘AZART’, an alphabet that seeks more direct communication: a system within which form and content coincide as much as possible. AZART determines the form, the colour and the principle in which endless interventions and works of art are created. After the death of Monica Droste in 1998, Guy Rombouts continued with AZART alone.

FOOR AZART – FAIRGROUND AZART is a sculptural version of an alphabet without a fixed layout or location. It can be placed in an infinite number of forms.