Poem Nº 00000000000000000000000000000,9, 03 Oct 2015 — 07 Nov 2015
Exhibitions

Poem Nº 00000000000000000000000000000,9

With the great tradition of Brazil’s concrete poetry in mind, this exhibition curated by Supportico Lopez gallery, from Berlin, strives to offer a contemporary fragment of the experience provided by the Gruppo Noigandres in 1956, when they exhibited paintings, sculptures, and poster poems side by side for the first time in the country. The exhibition is titled after a poem by Henri Chopin and departs from it to gather a group of artists that explore the signs structure of the poem and of language.

The art that Karl Holmqvist (b. 1964, Västerås, Sweden) produces is subversive, a soft-spoken subversion, that is made more evident when repeated and revealed as the background for further encounters and understanding. The avant-garde abstract expressionist drawings of Julian Beck (1925 – 1985, USA), made between 1944 and 1958, anticipate the poetic political body/experience of his Living Theatre and, through the simplicity of the process, seems deeply connected with the honest and instinctive theatrical authority of Adriano Costa (b. 1975, São Paulo, Brazil).

Zin Taylor (b. 1978 in Calgary, Canada) often entitles and describes his attempt to organize ideas into concrete images as the form of a thought. Lenora de Barros’ (b. 1953, São Paulo) acts as a bridge between the deeper facet of the word as a production of language and the performative gesture that activates it. James Hoff’s (b. 1975, Fort Wayne, US) practice is connoted by the presence of the text as a continuous on-going experience. Natalie Häusler (b. 1983, Münich, Germany) applies the finest research in the geography of poetry, ending in a personally structured, continuous dialogue between the written poem and the poem as a vision. With Gregorio Magnani, it is easy to be fascinated by the beauty of the book as object, as narration, as artwork – publications by different artists selected by Magnani will melt into the display of the show.

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