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Joan Brossa
Dretà
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1998
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With visual poetry we go back to ideograms, which are the origin of writing. But visual poetry has followed a process in my work. I began to say things through language, which is very important, but it came a time when I adopted an anti-rhetoric formula, trying to focus on reality but with a minimum of adjectives, because I’m interested in the head, not the wig. This led me to a detailed description of the object, and that’s only one step away from visual poetry. It was not a gratuitous decision, it was an ongoing process: I went from paper as a support to the object as a support, and finally to the object itself. In any case, everything happened from the inside out. I’ve never set out to make puzzles; everything I do comes from intuitive knowledge.

But in the end, isn’t the shock produced by your visual poems or object poems sometimes close to the absurd?

I don’t think they’re absurd, no more than life in any case. Everything we’re saying is absurd; if you frame it, it’s absurd, but if you remove the frame, it’s life.

You’ve always been at the forefront of what is normally known as the avant-garde, since Dau al Set to the present. And yet you refuse to be called an avant-garde artist.

That’s because avant-garde sounds very military. [With irony, he explains further.] I don’t consider myself avant-garde, but of the moment. But, of course, so many people are rearguard that if you’re of the moment, then you’re avant-garde. That’s why the word irritates me. [He gives an example.] If someone else has a crystal set and yours is a transistor radio, you’re considered avant-garde, but being electronic simply means being up to date, doesn’t it?

Macià, Albert: ‘Joan Brossa’, Avui (Barcelona), 27 December 1989
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original title
Dretà
year of acquisition
2011
type of object
Object
dimensions
Urna 21 x 37.3 x 25.8 cm
Copyright
© Fundació Joan Brossa, VEGAP, Barcelona
registration number
R.4875
date
1998
fonds
MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium
media
Wood, metal and synthetic fabric
credits
MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium. Joan Brossa Fund. Long-term loan of Fundació Joan Brossa
original title
Dretà
registration number
R.4875
date
1998
year of acquisition
2011
fonds
MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium
type of object
Object
media
Wood, metal and synthetic fabric
dimensions
Urna 21 x 37.3 x 25.8 cm
credits
MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium. Joan Brossa Fund. Long-term loan of Fundació Joan Brossa
Copyright
© Fundació Joan Brossa, VEGAP, Barcelona
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