after futura is an exhibition curated by Camilo Otero and Eva Parra that revisits Hansjörg Mayer’s futura (1965–1968), a series of twenty-six broadsides bringing together artists and poets working at the intersection of experimental publishing, typography, and language-based art. Produced at a moment when artists’ publications were emerging as an independent field, Mayer’s project positioned the printed page as both exhibition space and circulation network, connecting an international community engaged in conceptual and material approaches to language.
The exhibition presents the complete futura series alongside archival documentation of the original project, situating it within broader histories of postwar experimental publishing. In dialogue with this historical framework, Center for Book Arts has commissioned ten contemporary artists to produce new broadsides that extend Mayer’s original premise by treating the typeface Futura and the spatial format of the broadside as shared infrastructure for artistic experimentation.
These newly commissioned works will be published as a limited-edition set by Center for Book Arts. The project will also be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog featuring newly commissioned essays and documentation of the historical futura series.
