Hypergraphy, also called hypergraphics or metagraphics, is an experimental form of visual communication developed by the Lettrist movement. Hypergraphy abandons the phonetic values communicated by most conventional written languages in favor of an aesthetically broadened form. Given its experimental nature it can include any visual media. However, hypergraphy most commonly consists of letters, symbols, and pictographs.
Maurice LemaĆ®tre (French: [lÉmÉĖtŹ]; born MoĆÆse Maurice Bismuth; 23 April 1926 ā 2 July 2018) was a French Lettrist painter (known for his use of Hypergraphy), filmmaker, writer and poet. LemaĆ®tre was Isidore Isou's right-hand man for nearly half a century, but began to distancing himself from Lettrism in the 2000s.
LemaĆ®tre's paintings, films, photographs and sculptures have been shown in more than twenty personal exhibits in Europe and The United States. The Pompidou Center has acquired some of his paintings, and the PĆ©rez Art Museum Miami, as well as the MusĆ©e d'Art Moderne de Paris, where in 1968, a large retrospective of his pictorial and film works took place. Poems by LemaĆ®tre were set to music by Michel Faleze and were sung by Marie-ThĆ©rĆØse Richol-MĆ¼ller.