The relationship between image and meaning, between visual form and verbal language, declines itself into individual representations of the artistic movement of Visual Poetry, of which the MAGI owns an important collection.
Born within the second avant-garde of the Sixties with the aim to freely explore the relations and intersections between visual and verbal communication, the movement has widely spread to an international level throughout the next decade, establishing as one of the most distinctive expressive mode of the Seventies. Still very vital, the search for synergy between words and images is expressed through painting, graphic art, collage, assemblage, performance and photography, exploring with unlimited curiosity and inventiveness different languages, between commitment and humor, lyricism and play. There are many groups- from the Group ’70 to Phonetic Poetry- and authors here represented, including for example Arrigo Lora Totino, Roberto Malquori, Lamberto Pignotti, Luciano Ori.
