Lamberto Pignotti
La Rivoluzione Toglie Il Dolore

LA RECENSIONE

"FAR FROM THE SUN"

Chapter 1: Lucky Strike and paper cup filled with water for purely incineration use.

1965. The value of the image, the word and the sound is indisputable, words and images mix in our daily life, the rule is to feel connected to something that ultimately isn't there, the illusion of belonging to something, of being an integral part of a superstructural mechanism that allows us to survive.

The vocabulary shrinks, the verbs are those of consumption, words have less intrinsic meaning, the social and the concrete arrive at contradiction.

Visual poetry is Italian ground, Nanni Balestrini, Antonio Porta, Eugenio Miccini, Lamberto Pignotti are the most important exponents and although it is not correct to speak of Italian exclusivity, let the Americans who would like to have invented and discovered everything themselves not take offense, in that land of "convicts and whores" as my grandfather used to repeat.

In the '60s, words through some elitist artists are still embedded in a perspective of poetic-ideological guerrilla, the Florentine GROUP 70 places at the center of its production of "technological poetry" the unbearable confrontation with the mystifying language of propaganda and mass communication. The fortunes of visual poetry will continue until the mid-'70s, with its vocation for disorganization and dispersion and its ability to influence over long distances, on its own inexhaustible sources or other parallel and subsequent artistic vocations that will center the social and communication problem.

Imagine: At age 7 with a cell phone surfing the internet, digital television, mass images, mass culture.

The work that some will define as a cheap thing, expresses itself autonomously, no person needs to explain it to you, I believe you are able to understand the deep meaning, a melancholy that grips our aberrant narcissism, light inside the eyes we now have.

Imagine Imagined: The eyes as a mirror of the soul.

"No to pain, whatever can be said can be said clearly, the REVOLUTION removes pain"