Eugenio Miccini (b.

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1925 – d. Florence 2007) was an Italian artist and writer, considered to be one of the fathers of Italian

visual poetry Literary theorists have identified visual poetry as a development of concrete poetry but with the characteristics of intermedia in which non-representational language and visual elements predominate. Differentiation from concrete poetry As the li ...

Biography

Eugenio Miccini (1925 in Florence – 2007 in Florence) is considered to be one of the fathers of Italian

Education and career

Graduated in Pedagogy, in 1963 he founded together with poets, musicians and painters '' Gruppo '70'', creating the Italian term "poesia visiva" (visual poetry). Visual poetry is an art research characterized by predominance of the image on the typographical text, aimed to obtain compositions where words and images, signs and figures, are integrated without solution of continuity on the

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plane (''Dizionario della lingua italiana Devoto-Oli'', Le Monnier). In Italy the 1960s have been rich of activities of Gruppo 70, starting from two meetings organized in Florence in 1963, focusing on "Art and Communication" and in 1964 "Arte and Technology", where discussion touched on

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, this means those practices in the arts characterized by multicode or

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operations, operations that could be classified as " total poetry", this means realized with the most wide

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, including in the performances sounds and noise, gestures and actions, various materials, newspaper and reviews, and also parfumes and food. Eugenio Miccini has collaborated as expert of semiotic matter to the Cathedra Strumenti e Tecniche della comunicazione visiva of the

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(Architecture Faculty). He was teaching Contemporary Art History in the fine art academies of

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. Miccini's work is included in the Italian

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and was object of doctoral research also at University La

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of Paris and at the

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. He is included in anthologies and school books in Italy, such as ''Storia dell'Arte Italiana'', by

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, Electa – Bruno Mondadori. His works are in many public collections, among them:

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, Museo della Pilotta of

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of New York, Museum BWA of

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, and in the public galleries of

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, Antwerp,

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, Tokyo, and others. He participated in the most important international exhibitions, such as: Biennale di Venezia (four times), Quadriennale of Rome (as commissar), Stedelijik Museum of

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, Palazzo Forti of

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of Florence, Museums of

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, GAM,

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. He published more than seventy books, art books and essays. He died in Florence on 19 June 2007.

Bibliography

*Miccini Eugenio, "Une semiologie de la transgression", in "Inter", Quebec, avril 1984. E in "Poesia visiva e dintorni", Meta, Firenze 1995. *Miccini Eugenio, ''La poesia è violenza, Poesia visiva, Poesia politica, pubblica'', Firenze, Tèchne, 1972. *Miccini Eugenio, ''La poesia visiva oggi'', in ''Poesia Totale, 1897–1997: dal colpo di dadi alla poesia visuale'', 2, a cura di Mascelloni, Sarenco, Parise, Verona,1998, p. 37–38 *Miccini Eugenio, ''Poesia e no'', 1963–1984, Udine, Campanotto, 1985 *Miccini Eugenio, ''Poesia Visiva'': 1962–1991, Verona, Parise, 1991 *''Libri D'artista'', a cura di Eugenio Miccini, Annalisa Rimmaudo, Mantova, Sometti, 2000 * Vincenzo Accame, ''Il segno poetico. Riferimenti per una storia delle ricerca poetico-visuale e interdisciplinare'', Samedan, Munt Press, 1977 ( 2a ed., Milano, Zarathustra, 1981) *

Caterina Davinio Caterina Davinio (born Maria Caterina Invidia; 25 November 1957, Foggia) is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. She is the author of works of digital art, net.art, video art and was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998. Biograp ...

, ''Tecno-Poesia e realtà virtuali'', Mantova, Sometti, 2002 *

Lamberto Pignotti Lamberto Pignotti (born 1926 in Firenze) is an Italian poet, writer and visual artist. Biography In the early 1960s, he was one of the first artists who worked creating intersections between poetry, word and mass media, fixing theoretical basis a ...

, ''Anni sessanta, poesia tecnologica, poesia visiva, Gruppo 70'', in ''Poesia Totale, 1897–1997: dal colpo di dadi alla poesia visuale'', II, a cura di Mascelloni, Sarenco, Parise, Verona,1998 *Miccini Eugenio, ''Anche il silenzio è parola'', Firenze, Edizioni Meta Parole e Immagini, 2002 *AAVV, ''Quella che vi abbiamo raccontato è una storia d'amore. Eugenio Miccini''. Meta, Mantova 2002.

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