Synopsis
For Julien Blaine, Giovanni Fontana and Sarenco art has a liberating power and the ability to subvert tradition by going beyond the limits imposed by conventions. In the documentary of the three artists, their relationship with visual poetry has been recounted since the early 1960s, through trespassing in sound poetry and performance.
The documentary is part of the “Poetic Boom Boom” exhibition, dedicated to European Visual Poetry, and exhibited at the Galleria delle Prigioni, Treviso, from 13 December 2018 to 7 April 2019.
Poesia in carne e ossa
(Poetry in the Flesh)
Italy, 2018
24 “, original version in Italian and French subtitled in Italia
with
Julien Blaine
Rognac (France)
1942
Giovanni Fontana
Frosinone
1946
Sarenco
Vobarno (BS)
1945-2017
Credits
Direction and Editing
Marco Pavan
Interview with Sarenco
Author
Stefano Ribaldi
Shooting
Mario Pantoni
Music
Giovanni Schievano, Soundrivemotion
Artistic Direction
Marcello Piccinini
Production
Fabrica for Imago Mundi
Videos and archival materials
Poem Bonotto
by Giovanni Fontana
Bonotto Foundation, Luigi Bonotto Collection
Selfishness (1962) by Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hirsal
Les accident de la glotte en mai 2004, Henri Chopin
interpreted by Giovanni Fontana
Morra Foundation of Naples
Sarenco video film
National Film Library
Drôle de Zèbre, Espèce d’ne
by Julien Blaine
J. F. Meyer Gallery and Films de L’Aire
Acknowledgments
Sarenco Foundation
Oriano Mabellini
Berardelli Foundation
Parise collection
Alessandro Mistrorigo