Poesia Visiva
Luc Fierens and Elena Marini
Luc Fierens 2024
Elena Marini 2024
Luc Fierens and Elena Marini 2024
“ ‘Poesia Visiva’ — visiva is clearly reminiscent of vision and immediately points to its socially committed nature. Apart from this, the poesia visiva is also characterized by the use of, e.g., photographic material from the world of advertising and journalism. Also, the visual character is reflected in its name. Poesia visiva is a continuation of concrete-visual poetry in which an attempt is made to extend the concept of poetry beyond its conventional means of expression and limitations, as well as expressing a social criticism.” — Jan De Vree and Maria Elena Minuto, 2021
“As Enfants Terribles of the Poesia Visiva, we remain faithful to the authentic, ironic, libertarian, uncensored and underground artistic vision of our predecessors, in line of continuity with the manual use of collage and formats, always keeping in mind that the balances of power in our time are signs opposite to what saw the birth of the poesia visiva, by Gruppo 70, in Florence, Italy, in 1963. Our work looks at the introspective dimension as well as the social, anthropological, sociological and political dimension.” — Luc Fierens and Elena Marini
Luc Fierens was born in Mechelen, Belgium in 1961 and is a networked collagist and visual poet provocateur. Together with Elena Marini , they are considered as the Poesia Visiva ‘enfants terribles’ for their authentic radical vision. His work emerged out of Poesia Visiva, Mail Art and Fluxist circles. In 1984, his focus was already on collage and visual poetry through the pre-internet Mail Art (social) network with solo and group exhibitions worldwide and published in various anthologies including, Visual Poetry (Skira Editore, Milan, 2014) and Visual Poetry in Europe (Imago Mundi-Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, Italy, 2016). In 2019, a major retrospective of his work, spanning 1984 to 2018 at the Fondazione Berardelli in Brescia, Italy accompanied by the 205-page monograph, Punti di vista e di partenza by Margot Modonesi. His collages, visual poems and artist publications (Postfluxpost °1987) have been acquired by major archives, including The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive in Miami, Artpool Art Research Center in Budapest and Archivio Vortice in Buenos Aires; by libraries, including the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York City, Poetry, Rare Books Collection of University at Buffalo Libraries, and Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience in Antwerp; by museums, including the Museum of Yeisk, Russia, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo,Norway, MaRT in Trento e Rovereto and Museo Magi’900 in Pieve di Cento in Italy, Karuizawa New Art Museum in Japan; and private collections, incl. Collezione Palli in Prato, Fondazione Bonotto in Molveno, Italy and the Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke, Belgium. Luc Fierens at Instagram.
Elena Marini (b. 1975) is a visual poet and activist based in Italy. Since 2001, she is internationally collaborating with visual artists, poets and activists working on independent projects such as mail-art and visual poetry denouncing the society abuses. She collaborated with some of the most important visual poets, including Eugenio Miccini, Luc Fierens and Sarenco. In 2016, she was invited to take part at the international project Franticham's Assembling Box Nr. 33, visual poetry and fluxus inspired works. “Manifesto totale” is the second book, after the doppelgänger catalog (2016), in collaboration with Luc Fierens, edited by Redfoxpress, Ireland, 2023. Selected solo shows in Italy include doppelgänger (2016), La lotta poetica continua (2017) at the Studio 38 Art Gallery, Pistoia, Italy and Ancora svegli (2023) at the Piano Nobile Home Gallery, Pistoia, Italy. Her work was exhibited internationally in art fairs and group shows, such as 51st International Contemporary Art “AU” Exibition, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan (2023), Visual Poetry Today, Diad Studio and Gallery, Dayton, USA (2023), Art Book Fair, Antwerp, Belgium (2023), Postcards from the edge, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, USA (2024)and Asemic Writing, Galleria Artpoetry, Lecce, Italy (2024). Her works were published in Typo Magazine, San Francisco, USA,(2024) and Argo Magazine, Italy (2024). Her works (SPOT) are included in many private collections and museums, such as Archivio Carlo Palli Prato, Museo della Carale Ivrea and Archivio MaRT Trento e Rovereto (Italy), MIDECIANT (Spain), Centre de la Gravure (Belgium), Bonnefanten Museum (Netherlands), MAC (Argentina), Casa das Rosas (Brazil), Artpool (Hungary), Japan, Israel and USA. Elena Marini at Instagram.
