Hyungkoo Lee: The Homo Species

• Exhibition catalog

• 2007
• offset lithograph, sewn in sections and cased with foil- and blind-stamped cover
• 210 x 276 mm, 96 pp

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name presented at the Korean Pavilion, 52nd International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
• ISBN 978-89-957810-8-1 97600
• Text in English, French, and Korean
• 35,000 won

The book is structured along the two broad categories of Lee Hyungkoo’s work: optical devices and fictitious fossil skeleton sculptures. The former exude an air of absurd precision and sinister obsession, while the pseudo-evolutionist sculptures in the latter category could plausibly be exhibits in a parallel universe’s natural history museum. The dual structure is reflected by the two different typographic styles employed in the book: the clean, almost hygienic Swiss modernism and the archaic, centered arrangement loosely based on the typography of the first edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.

• Project type:
• publication

• Typefaces:
• Bodoni
• Helvetica Textbook
• Yoon Gothic

• Paper:
• Be Seven
• Magic Color

• Printer:
• Top Process

• Commissioners:
• Ahn Soyeon
• Arts Council Korea
• Lee Hyungkoo
• Specter Press

• Exhibitions:
• Group Theory (DDP, Seoul, 2021–22)
• Sulki & Min: Clarifying & Obscuring (Transtage, Hangzhou, 2024)