Bidspirit auction | AGUIAR (Fernando). POETICAL Performances 85-91.

AGUIAR (Fernando). POETICAL Performances 85-91. Lisboa. 1991. - AGUIAR (Fernando) POETICAL Performances 85-91 . Lisboa: s.n., 1991. 5 postais fotográficos em envelope de papel kraft; impressão offset a preto e branco; postais 148×105 mm.; envelope 162×114 mm. A set of 25 numbered 19/25 mail art pieces, dated 1991, by Fernando Aguiar (Lisbon, 1956), a central figure in visual poetry and performance art in Portugal and one of the most active Portuguese voices in the international mail art and experimental poetry network since the 1980s. Aguiar co-organized the anthology *Poemografias: perspectivas da poesia visual portuguesa* (Ulmeiro, 1985) with Silvestre Pestana and participated in numerous international performance and action poetry festivals in Europe, North America, and Latin America. The set brings together five photographic postcards documenting performances carried out between 1985 and 1991 in Portugal, Italy, Spain, Hungary, and Canada, thus tracing a cartography of the author's international activity during that period. The envelope itself is a work of postal art: the title ”Poetical Performances” is printed in three superimposed layers with three typographic stamps in red, blue, and green, replicating the multiple registration gesture characteristic of postal art and electrography. The performance ”Essay for an Interaction of Writing” at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1985) is documented in a photograph by Raul Ladeiro; the others in photographs by Teresa Aguiar and Sókliros Endre. A very limited edition item. Rare and highly valued. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate