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NELOS (António). LUGARES de Assento: Polí(p)tico Satírico. Setúbal. 2002. - NELOS (António) LUGARES de Assento: Polí(p)tico Satírico . Setúbal: s.n., 2002. 4 ff.: il.; 300×210 mm. A set of four electrographs from the series ”Lugares de Assento: Polí(p)tico Satírico” by António Nelos (Setúbal, 1950), a central figure in Portuguese visual poetry and mail art, co-organizer with Fernando Aguiar of the exhibition ”Poesia: Outras Escritas, Novos Suportes” (Setúbal, 1988), the 1st International Mail Art Exhibition in Setúbal (1989), and the exhibition ”Electrografias” (with César Figueiredo, Setúbal, 1991). Nelos collaborated with António Aragão on the mail art series ” Filigrama ” (1981-1983) and participated in numerous international biennials of visual poetry, including those in Mexico (1985, 1990, 1992), and in exhibitions in Italy, Spain, and France. The four sheets constitute a satirical polyptych about political power, articulating a recurring visual vocabulary: male figures in suits and ties in unstable balancing positions on stacked chairs, contradictory directional arrows, an engineering plan as a background, and fragments of text in antiquated scripts - Latin or pseudo-Latin in Gothic characters - with an ironic meaning. Each sheet develops a distinct scene: in ”Seating Places I, ” two figures overlap on three chairs with the Gothic caption ”facio si noluime:no ediuissem. Yale”; in ”Seating Places II, ” a figure balances on stacked chairs while another falls, with the caption ”imagin luce pocat: no ausmi dicere”; in ”Seating Places III, ” a figure on top of a chair disseminates papers with the word ”republic” above his head; In ”Seating Places IV, ” an acrobatic figure is superimposed on a set of chairs topped by the word ”capital.” All pages are signed and dated ”02” by the author. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate