Ian Whittlesea

Ian Whittlesea is holding our wednesday visiting lecture and I have been looking him up in advance. I have been looking at various works of his and finding him quite interesting, though I feel the same as with Adam Chodzko that I can't really get a grip around Whittlesea's work.

Whittlesea's Judo project is interesting he has translated the book 'Le fonduments du Judo' by french artist Yves Klien. No one has ever translated this book into English before, also while doing this Whittlesea worked to get a black belt in Judo as well, this took him 5 years to do. Whittlesea is a member of Europe's oldest Judo club the budokwai in London.

Whittlesea is working alot with typography in different kind of ways, as I have seen from one of his exhibitions that leaflets with a text taken of of it's original context forms a relation on it's own. These sentences are from text's other artists has written.

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