Vispro (Visual Prose)

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Visual Prose/vispro or not – examples submitted in a broad and very quick investigation of vispro:

Carrarini, Talo (Italy) Manifested Hidden Sun (by Benedetto Simonelli). 2020 Features: 1) Asemic handwritten text 2) Palimpsest 3) Extensive use of marginalia, often ignoring the gutter Italo wrote me this email regarding his work titled Manifested Hidden Sun (by Benedetto Simonelli): From the 80’s onwards much of my research has been sedimentation of texts and images inside surfaces of formats equivalent to sources of origin. From this wide range of possibilities, the TRANSCRIPTIONS, to which this job belongs. In this case two pages of the same format as the published brochure on which I fully transcribed the author's text. A space that also becomes a personal opportunity to study (hence the marginal notes) which formally define itself as accumulation, as overlap of all the words studied...

Italo Carrarini, Manifested Hidden Sun (by Benedetto Simonelli). 2020 Acrylics and inks on canvas / cardboard …15


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