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PIMENTA (Alberto). O DESAFIO da Mudança - Teatro de Artifício. Lisboa. 1985. - PIMENTA (Alberto) O DESAFIO da Mudança - Teatro de Artifício . Lisboa: s.n., 1985. 1 postal a cores com colagem fotográfica a preto e branco; 150×100 mm. Postcard documenting the performance ”The Challenge of Change - Theatre of Artifice” by Alberto Pimenta (Porto, 1937), held at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts (ESBAL) in 1985. The front of the postcard features a photographic installation: figures seated back-to-back in chairs with letters on their backs forming the words ”ODES” and ”FIOD”, in front of a television and a classical bust, framed by a film negative. The composition is characteristic of Pimenta's poetics, where television, the body, and mass culture are subjected to a critical and fragmented reading. The postcard was later transformed by the author himself into a unique work: on the printed side, Pimenta pasted a black and white photographic portrait of himself, irregularly torn, and signed the piece with his initials ”AP” in the lower right corner. The back features a signature 'Domingos Caldeira', crossed out. The intervention transforms the ephemeral promotional document into a singular work of postal art and visual poetry. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate