Projective spaces: footnotes to read Greco

Abstract

This article proposes to investigate the contemporary Argentine visual poetry taking as anchoring the paper support. We reflect on the support as a volume where the words organize the surface of the composition. From the tactile property of paper we review the forms that are inscribed in it along with a certain resistance characteristic of matter and its relation to a specific mode of historical production. To think about the plasticity of this imaginary space we propose to review the work of Alberto Greco. Particularly the production that surrounds the Gran Manifiesto-Rollo del arte Vivo-Dito, which found, in the paper roll, the singularity of a journey of the word both plastic and collective. Contemporary forms that are still committed to the paperwork propose to read knots loaded with history, survivals that work in the folds of the support. If the space of the sheet is perceived as the place where the images grow, they repeat themselves, they deform; visual poetry - its transit between image and writing, between letter and line, between suture and composition - proposes to add to the surface a temporary deviation that folds the complexity of historical time over the word.