Exhibition “Poetry, typography and mass communication”

Exhibition Message:

• “Painter, art critic, visual poet and journalist, Josep Iglésias del Marquet (1932-1989) is a key element in understanding the penetration of concrete poetry in Catalonia in the late 1960’s, as well as one of the pioneers of the Mail Art During his training period, he lived in Scotland and Canada. Especially active during the seventies, after his return to Barcelona, ​​he collaborated with Guillem Viladot in the Lo Pardal editions and created a large number of collages and visual poems that are echoed by two of his great interests: the Typography and mass communication. ”

• “This small sample aims to address these two topics, essential for understanding the polyhedral poetics of an author as fundamental and unknown to the general public.”

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