Metalogo

Obscure letters, entangled in rigorous symmetry, appear on Fashion Week runways, light up Rihanna’s concert stages, and adorn the album covers of K-pop and rap artists. To the general public, these enigmatic, almost indecipherable logos represent the cutting edge of contemporary graphic design.

Yet their roots lie far from the mainstream: they reach deep into the dark and abrasive world of Heavy Metal and its most extreme offshoots—Grindcore, Death Metal, and Black Metal.

Everyone is familiar with the provocative aesthetics of Metal, but few take the time to look closely at the emblems of its most underground bands—far removed from the media icons like Kiss, Iron Maiden, or Metallica.

From the razor-sharp type of Thrash Metal to the unreadable tangles of Black Metal, each logo is a declaration of intent—a graphic scream conveying the raw energy and singular universe of a band.

The exhibition “Métalogo” explores the evolution of these symbols, from the early letterforms of Hard Rock to today’s most extreme compositions, where text nearly dissolves into abstraction.

Through a selection of several hundred logos, organized according to the many subgenres that make up the Metal galaxy, this retrospective dives deep into a visual language as radical as it is fascinating.

Metalogo features work by Christophe Szpajdel, Luca Devinu, Mark Riddick, and Élodie Lesourd, among others.