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HATHERLY (Ana). [DUAS FOLHAS DE POESIA VISUAL - ESCRITA CALIGRÁFICA]. Lisboa. s.d. [c. 1973-1988]. - HATHERLY (Ana) [DUAS FOLHAS DE POESIA VISUAL - ESCRITA CALIGRÁFICA] . Verso de ambas as folhas com carimbo da artista: «A. Hatherly / R. Patrocínio 65-5º B / 1300 LISBOA». Lisboa: s.n., s.d. [c. 1973-1988]. 2 ff.: il.; mancha 130×85 mm; folha 210×150 mm. Ana Hatherly (Porto, 1929 - Lisbon, 2015) was one of the leading figures in Portuguese experimental and visual poetry, co-organizer of the founding volume PO.EX: Theoretical Texts and Documents of Portuguese Experimental Poetry (1981), and author of a body of work that crosses poetry, calligraphy, visual arts, and cinema. The exploration of writing as image constitutes the core of her series of artist's books: Maps of Imagination and Memory (Moraes, 1973), The Writer (Moraes, 1975), The Reinvention of Reading (Futura, 1975), and Natural Writing (Diferença, 1988). Her visual work is represented in the Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and in the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. The two sheets gathered here present compositions of gestural calligraphic writing: forms that evoke deconstructed oriental characters, worked with great energy of stroke. One sheet features subtle polychromy with textured backgrounds in shades of brown and gray; the other, intense black ink on light paper. Both bear the artist's personal stamp on the back with the address Rua do Patrocínio, Lisbon – a characteristic practice of Hatherly's direct distribution of material from her graphic production. Rare and highly valued. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate