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PESTANA (Silvestre). POVO NOVO Virtual. Coimbra / Lisboa. 2010-2013. - PESTANA (Silvestre) POVO NOVO Virtual . Nas Escritas PO.EX. Casa da Escrita, Coimbra, 8 de Fevereiro - 1 de Março de 2013. Comissário: Jorge Pais de Sousa. Apoios: Serralves e outros. Inclui: 1 folha de sala/catálogo (bi-fólio) com texto de Jorge Pais de Sousa, datado Coimbra, 5 de Fevereiro de 2013; 3 postais da exposição «POVO - PEOPLE» (Museu da Electricidade, Lisboa, 19 Jun. - 19 Set. 2010), em três variantes de cor (azul, vermelho e amarelo), bilingues (português/inglês). Coimbra / Lisboa: Casa da Escrita / Museu da Electricidade, 2010-2013. 1 bi-fólio + 3 postais; impressão offset; bi-fólio 300 mm.; postais 210×148 mm. A collection of ephemeral documents relating to two exhibitions by Silvestre Pestana (Funchal, 1949), one of the founders and most radical figures of Portuguese visual and experimental poetry, co-organizer with Fernando Aguiar of the anthology Poemografias (Ulmeiro, 1985) and a pioneer of video poetry and computer poetry in Portugal. The exhibition leaflet ”Povo Novo Virtual” documents the homonymous exhibition presented at the Casa da Escrita in Coimbra in 2013, as part of the ”Nas Escritas PO.EX” cycle, curated by Jorge Pais de Sousa. The curator's extensive text traces Pestana's artistic journey since 1968, situating the work Povo Novo (1975) – a pioneering digital poem that uses the letters n, p, and the word ”ovo” (egg) as linguistic and plastic signs – within the context of his trajectory between exile in Sweden, his connection to the Fluxus movement and Nam June Paik, and his return to Portugal after April 25th. The image on the poster/exhibition leaflet reproduces Roza Vinas's famous 1973 photograph, featuring Pestana's mask-face with the letters ”n”, ”p”, and ”ovo”. The three postcards document the exhibition ”POVO - PEOPLE” held at the Electricity Museum in Lisbon in 2010, as part of the celebrations of the Centenary of the Republic, bringing together works by Cristino da Silva, Almada Negreiros, Rosa Ramalho, Rui Sanã, Paula Rego, Eduardo Viana, Cindy Sherman, Mário Eloy, Henrique Pousão, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Júlio Pomar and others. The three postcards are chromatic variations of the same design - blue, red and yellow - forming a complete set. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate