To a Poet I

Description

Oblique shot of the sea in which a boat and a man pass at one point in the frame.

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This video was presented during the 39th Venice Biennale, in the Alvar Aalto Pavilion in June and September 1980:

"Portuguese representation commissioned by Ernesto de Sousa.
A collective installation with the theme "The Word and the Letter".

Participants included Ana Hatherly, António Sena, E.M. de Melo e Castro, Ernesto de Sousa and João Vieira. Almada Negreiros (with a reproduction of the panel Começar) and Fernando Pessoa were evoked pioneers of the written-word. The musicians Lopes e Silva and Maria João Serrão participated in Ernesto de Sousa's video The Word and The Letter.


We decided to organize not just a mere "hanging", but an installation on a common and rigorous theme that doesn't mute individual contributions. This theme – THE WORD AND THE LETTER – favors the written word and the sign, not only in contemporary visual arts but also as a reflection of a dynamism that possibly characterized the Portuguese social and cultural life of the last years. In this case no distinction is made between art and criticism, image and sound, the musical note and its performance, sound poetry and visual poetry. This presentation is a homage to Fernando Pessoa and Almada Negreiros, pioneers of the Portuguese written word.

Ernesto de Sousa, note, 1980s." (Source, artist's website)

Photograph of the video installation in the Alvar Aalto pavilion during the 39th Venice Biennale in June and September 1980. (Source, jpeg, website of the artist Ernesto de Sousa)

Presentation place

- 39th Venice Biennale, Alvar Aalto Pavilion, June-September 1980.

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