Bremen: Poetry goes Art & vice versa

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldts "Concrete Men in Concrete Talk"

Augusto de Campos und Julio Plaza: "Poemobiles"

Exhibition:
The Emergence and International Development of Concrete and Visual Poetry from the 1950s Onwards.

via weserburg.de: "Working with language as a material unites artists from Latin America to Eastern Europe and from North America to Asia. As the first global literary and art movement based on aesthetic principles, concrete and visual poetry is about artists crossing the boundaries between text, image and music. The period from the 1950s onwards saw the formation of this artistic and literary trend in which, instead of merely “describing” things, the language, as a material, is self-sufficient. Here the public is confronted with the play of words and letters, the interrelationships between sound and form. One-word poems, ideograms, dialect poems, collages and objects based on writing are only some of the forms that have been created in this context."


Lindenhofstraße
28237 Bremen
Weserburg / Museum für Moderne Kunst, Studienzentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen, www.weserburg.de