Lamberto Pignotti (born 1926 in Firenze) is an Italian poet, writer and visual artist.
Biography
In the early 1960s, he was one of the first artists who worked creating intersections between poetry, word and
mass media, fixing theoretical basis and assembling traditions of
avant-garde and
Pop Art. Lamberto Pignotti, together with
Eugenio Miccini Eugenio Miccini (b. Florence 1925 – d. Florence 2007) was an Italian artist and writer, considered to be one of the fathers of Italian visual poetry.
Biography
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, are considered to be one of the initiators of Italian
visual poetry. He collaborated with national and international journals, with television programs of Rai. He was professor in the Faculty of Architecture of the
University of Florence and in DAMS of Bologna, where he hold courses on
avant-garde,
mass-media, and
new media.
Theoretician and artist using synesthesia in the arts, he creates performances and poetry events where are present linguistic, verbal, and gesture signs, involving the five senses.
We have performance actions with poems to eat, to drink, to hear, to sniff, to put in action with gestures and voice.
His visual poems are realized as collage elaborations with writing on images and photography taken from the world of mass media, with the aim to make evident its contradictions in a ludic process similar to the one of
Pop Art.
Lamberto Pignotti has realized
object-books with various materials, performance using text fragments variously combined, also involving the public.
His work has been presented in many countries and is included also in didactical books in Italy, such as
Storia dell'arte Italiana di Electa-
Bruno Mondadori.
The most relevant Italian art critics were interested in Lamberto Pignotti's work, among them:
Gillo Dorfles
Angelo Eugenio "Gillo" Dorfles (12 April 1910 – 2 March 2018) was an Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher.
Biography
Born in Trieste to a Gorizian father of Jewish descent and a Genoese mother, Dorfles graduated in medicine, specializ ...
,
Giulio Carlo Argan,
Umberto Eco,
Achille Bonito Oliva.
In the 1990s, he began to get involved in the art network on line, participating with his visual poems and performances in several events in the
Internet in the context of new media art meetings and art databases.
Exhibitions
*Among the exhibitions:
Biennale di Venezia,
Quadriennale di Roma, the avant-garde festival of New York, São Paulo Biennial.
Bibliography
Among his numerous publications:
*Lamberto Pignotti, ''Sine æsthetica, sinestetica. Poesia visiva e arte plurisensoriale'', Roma, Empiria, 1990
* Lamberto Pignotti, ''Nozione di uomo'', Milano, Mondadori, 1964
* Lamberto Pignotti, ''Una forma di lotta'', Milano, Mondadori, 1967
* Lamberto Pignotti, ''Parola per parola'', diversamente, Venezia, Marsilio, 1976
* Lamberto Pignotti, Vedute, Roma, Edizioni Florida, 1982
* Lamberto Pignotti, ''Questa storia o un’altra'', Napoli, Guida, 1984
* Lamberto Pignotti, ''In principio'', with presentation essays by Marcello Carlino, Francesco Muzzioli, Giorgio Patrizi, Cosenza, UH scrittura & poesia, 1986
* Lamberto Pignotti, ''Zone marginali'', Pasian di Prato (UD), Campanotto, 1991
* Lamberto Pignotti, ''Odissea'', Roma, Fermenti, 1994.
* Lamberto Pignotti, ''Le nudità provocanti'', Bologna, Sampietro, 1965
* Lamberto Pignotti, ''Giro del mondo'', Napoli, Medusa, 1987
* Lamberto Pignotti, ''Tutte le direzioni'', Roma, Empiria, 1988
*AAVV, ''Lamberto Pignotti'', Firenze, Edizioni META, 1999
*Lamberto Pignotti, ''Scritture convergenti. Letteratura e mass media'', Pasian di Prato-UD, Campanotto Editore, 2005
External links
Interview (it) MART Rovereto
See also
* Poetry
* Visual Poetry
* Digital Poetry
* Concrete Poetry
*Performance
A performance is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.
Management science
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* Fluxus
*Futurism
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*Gruppo 63
The Neoavanguardia ("New Vanguard") was an avant-garde literature of Italy, Italian literary movement oriented towards radical forms of experimentation with language. Some of its most prominent members include Nanni Balestrini, Edoardo Sanguineti, ...
* Avant-garde
External links
* Lamberto Pignotti Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Italian poets
Italian male poets
Italian multimedia artists
Italian contemporary artists
Artists from Florence
Gruppo 63
Living people
1926 births
Academic staff of the University of Florence
Visual poets