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ARAGÃO (António). [TRÊS ELECTROGRAFIAS DE POESIA VISUAL]. Funchal / Lisboa. s.d. [c. 1984-1987]. - ARAGÃO (António) [TRÊS ELECTROGRAFIAS DE POESIA VISUAL] . Carimbo dactilografado «ANTONIO ARAGÃO» em todas as folhas. Textos impressos: 1. «Em seguida Johnny MacDougal Pipistoleiro Remurimijava na Cusciência dos Meus Testículos no Phoenix Park.»; 2. «E cantava a tortura Fe Desfalsa da Paz. Cantava Sam! Tânica. Mas o Earwi Gging da OLP Espermanece no Outro Gã. Do Cuciforme da Cêéé.»; 3. «Freeman! Freeman! Red Murray Falamerdando pelo Pescoço.». Funchal / Lisboa: s.n. [c. Vala Comum], s.d. [c. 1984-1987]. 3 ff.: il.; 300×210 mm. A collection of three electrographs by António Aragão (São Vicente, Madeira, 1921 - Funchal, 2008), co-organizer of the two anthological notebooks of Experimental Poetry (1964, 1966) and a pioneer of electrography and copy art in Portugal. Aragão's electrographic production developed throughout the 1980s and was collected in three volumes published in 1990 by his publisher Vala Comum. In his compositions, Aragão appropriates texts and images from newspapers and magazines, creating absurd combinations that subvert any stable production of meaning, articulating sardonic sociological and political criticism with experimentation with the possibilities of the medium. The three sheets gathered here are characteristic of this production: repeated and fragmented photographic images (legs of anonymous characters, schematic figures, a coffee cup) associated with handwritten poem-texts of a Dadaist, scatological, and politically oblique nature, with neologisms, compound words, and absurd references to fictional characters (”Johnny MacDougal Pipistoleiro, ” ”Red Murray”) and real places (Phoenix Park, Dublin). The verbal vocabulary combines Portuguese, English, and phonetic inventions in a poetics of excess and nonsense that is a distinctive mark of Aragão. A rare and esteemed collection. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate