Alix Martin lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland.
Describing himself as a “graphic artist”, he explores the shifting
boundary between visual language and printed objects.
His career, which has taken him from printing industry to publishing
houses and art galleries, has been enriched by a postgraduate degree
in branding at HEAD – Geneva, where he learned to deconstruct visual
codes in order to reveal their tensions.
With the “ Bibliocuts ” series, presented at Artgenève art fair in 2020,
he cuts and sculpts books, diverting their function and offering a new
way of reading them. Each fragment becomes matter, each absence
becomes form.
Alix no longer conceives of the book as a medium, but as a territory :
a porous space where the boundaries between design, publishing,
and art dissolve.
He is represented by the Rupture bookstore-gallery in Venice.