Poetry in the Flesh

For Julien Blaine, Giovanni Fontana and Sarenco art has the power to free the mind and subvert the tradition, overcoming the limits imposed by custom.
The three artists tell about their relationship with visual poetry, since the beginnings in the Sixties, and through digressions into sound poetry and performance.

The documentary is part of “Poetic Boom Boom” exhibition, dedicated to European Visual Poetry, and exhibited at the Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, from 13 December 2018 to 7 April 2019.

A DOCUMENTARY BY

Marco Pavan

Italy, 2018 - 24’, original version in Italian and French with English subtitles

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Artists

Credits

WIth

Julien Blaine
Rognac (Frace)
1942

Giovanni Fontana
Frosinone (Italy)
1946

Sarenco
Vobarno (Brescia, Italy)
1945-2017

A production by
Fabrica for Fondazione Imago Mundi

Director
Marco Pavan

Filming and Editing
Marco Pavan

Interview with Sarenco

Author
Stefano Ribaldi

Filming
Mario Pantoni

Music
Giovanni Schievano, Soundrivemotion

Art Direction
Marcello Piccinini

Video and Archive Materials

Poema Bonotto
by Giovanni Fontana
Fondazione Bonotto, Collezione Luigi Bonotto

Egoismo (1962) by Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hirsal
Les accidents de la glotte en mai 2004, Henri Chopin
performed by Giovanni Fontana
Fondazione Morra, Naples

Video-film by Sarenco
Cineteca Nazionale

Drôle de Zèbre, Espèce d’Âne
by Julien Blaine
Galleria J. F. Meyer and Films de L’Aire

Thanks to
Fondazione Sarenco
Oriano Mabellini
Fondazione Berardelli
Collezione Parise
Alessandro Mistrorigo

Watch the documentary

A DOCUMENTARY BY

Marco Pavan

Italy, 2018 - 24’, original version in Italian and French with English subtitles