Following its success at the Dicastery in Vatican City, the exhibition “Transnational Trajectories in Visual Poetry” is now presented at Palazzo Lombardia in Milan. Curated by Raffaella Perna, the exhibition brings together over 200 works by 87 national and international artists, tracing the global intersections and evolutions of visual poetry across decades and geographies. The exhibition will remain open to the public until October 31.

The exhibition is designed to highlight the transnational nature of Visual Poetry, one of the most influential artistic movements of the late twentieth century, which inherited the legacy of the early avant-gardes and from the very beginning, embraced dialogue across cultures and nations. By transcending geographical and identity boundaries, Visual Poetry has fostered an inclusive and socially engaged art, an approach that Pope Francis might today describe as a “desire for fraternity.”

The exhibition offers a cross-cutting perspective on the work of artists associated with the various verbal-visual experiments that emerged globally in the postwar period, from Concrete Poetry to Visual Poetry, from Object Poetry to New Writing. The exhibition aims to underscore the poetic coherence and shared sensibilities of artists involved in this movement, united by a utopian vision and a spirit of hope.

GLOBAL VISUAL POETRY

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Dicastero per la Cultura e l’Educazione
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