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Education and Influences:
While studying at a Seminary, he
became very interested in Greek philosophy and Latin literature,
the influence of which can be seen in his later, more mature
work during the nineteen seventies. He gained a teaching degree
and subsequently became a publicist. He then embarked on a period
of complex activities and literary militancy, working on various
publications, including "Quartiere", "Letteratura",
and "Il Menabò". He published a number of books and
poems and won the City of Florence poetry prize in 1961. In
1962 he began for the first time to experiment with visual poems
and in 1963 founded 702 Group in Florence with Lamberto Pignotti
and Luciano Ori, establishing Visual Poetry as a means of artistic
expression.
Artistic development:
In 1965 his Visual
Poems appeared in an anthology presented by Lamberto Pignotti
and published by Sampietro in Bologna. This was an intense period
in his career, characterised by strong idealism and the organisation
of exhibitions, shows, debates and publications on the subject
of visual poetry. In Florence in 1969 he organised "Centro
Tèchne", together with a journal of the same name and accompanying
notebooks , all dedicated to visual poetry, the theatre and
the cultural and political debates taking place at around this
time. In the nineteen seventies he took part in the "International
Visual Poetry Group", also known as "The Group of
Nine" and, together with Sarenco, edited the second and
third series of the "Poetic Struggle" journal in Brescia,
Italy. In 1983 he founded the "Logomotives" group
with Arias-Misson, Blaine, Bory, De Vree, Sarenco and Verdi.
Over the years he has also been involved in various academic
activities, working as an expert in Semiotics in the Faculty
of Architecture at the University of Florence and teaching History
of Art at the Academies of Fine Art in Verona and Ravenna (Italy).
His
work has been shown in some of the most significant international
exhibitions: four times at the Biennale in Venice (XXVI Biennial
International Art Exhibition in Venice, "The book as a
place of research", 1972; XXXIX Biennial International
Art Exhibition in Venice, "The time of the museum",
1980; XLII Biennial International Art Exhibition in Venice,
"Art and science", 1986; XLV Biennial International
Art Exhibition in Venice, "Italian opera, transits",
1993; the XI Quadrennial Art Exhibition in Rome, Palazzo dei
Congressi, as pearl commissary in the Visual Poetry section,
1986 and finally at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Pilotta
Museum in Parma, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National
Galleries of Warsaw, Cèret, Lublino, Valenza and Antwerp and
others. He has published over eighty books, both creative works
and essays. Included in the first category are: Visual poems
1962-1970, Florence, Tèchne (1970); Ex Rebus, Florence, Tèchne
(1970) and Archive of Italian visual poetry, Florence, Tèchne
(1970). In the second category is: Visual poetry and its surroundings,
Florence, Meta (1995).
Latest personal exhibitions:
1985
Studio
Morra, Napoli
Galèrie J. & J. Donguy, Parigi
1987
Mercato
del Sale, Milano
Galleria Lo Spazio, Verona
1988
Comune
di Senigallia, (AN)
1989
Galleria Cinquetti, Verona
1990
Galery
Kaze, Osaka
1991
Galleria Unimedia, Genova
La Cave
Litteraire, Villefontaine (Francia)
1992
Comune di Montecatini
Terme (PT)
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara
1993
Galleria
Fioretto, Padova
1994
Galleria Fontanella Borghese, Roma
Galleria
Uxa, Novara
Farsetti Arte, Prato
1995
Salone di Villa
Romana, Firenze
1996
Galleria Gagliardi, S.Gimignano (SI)
1997
Galleria
De' Foscherari, Bologna
1998
Di Stefano/Incontri, Enna
Galleria
SKC, Belgrado
Atelier Ducale, Mantova
1999
Galleria
"Carte d'Arte", Catania
2000
Associazione Artisti,
Faenza
Galleria Fioretto, Padova
RAI 1 + RAI Sat, (con
Paolo Fabbri e Achille Bonito Oliva) "L'occhio" (3
perfonnances)
Latest joint exhibitions:
1993
XIV
Biennale di Venezia
Poèsure et peintrie, Musei di Marsiglia
1997
Dadaismo/Dadaismi,
Galleria d'Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona
Quattro quartetti,
Taormina Arte, Taormina (CT)
Intennedia Avantgarde, Queensland
Art Gallery, Brisbane (Australia)
1998
Musica e no, S.Maria
della Scala, Siena
Musica e no, Palazzo Ducale, Mantova
Musica
e no, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Firenze
Poesia Totale
1897-1997:Dal Colpo di dadi alla Poesia Visuale,Palazzo della
Ragione, Mantova
Correnti alternate, Gelleria Spazio-Tempo,
Firenze
1999
La parola come immagine e come segno, Firenze:
storia di una rivoluzione colta (1963-1980), Monsummano Terme
(PT)
Centro Culturale "G.Baratta", Mantova
Palazzina
delle Arti, La Spezia
Il disegno in Toscana (1945-1999),
Villa Medicea, Poggio a Caiano (PO)
Il libro d'artista in
Italia, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Torino
Arte per la vita,
Auditorium CR., Pisa
La Poesia Visiva 1963-1979, Villa Pacchiani,
S.Croce sull'Arno
Text-image, Musèe des beaux arts, La Chaux
de Fonda (CH)
Text-image, MART Archivio del Novecento, Rovereto
Text-image,
Museion, Galleria d' Arte Moderna - Bolzano
2000
Ricercare.
Labor. Nuove scritture, Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia
"Visual
Poetry", (Bezigrajska galerija) Ljubljana Municipal Gallery,
Ljubljana
L'elemento verbale nell'arte contemporanea, Galleria
Martano, Torino; Galleria Milano, Milano
Festival Mundial
de Poesia Sperunental, Habana, Cuba
Il sacro nell'arte contemporanea,
Galleria Vahnore, Vicenza
Firenze-Siena, Fondazione Vacchi,
Castello di Grotti (SI)
Esercizi di stile, Palazzina delle
Arti, La Spezia
Parleransi li omini, Assisi Giubileo 2000,
Comune di Assisi
Progetto 2001: L'immagine della parola"
(Carrega Miccini Pignotti) - Gallerie: De' Foscherari, Bologna
"Poesia
in azione"- CORPI DI POESIA (mostra e performances) Fiera
del libro, Pad.Regione Piemonte, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Torino
Scrittura-Materia,
Galleria Dieda, Bassano del Grappa (VI)
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