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EBEL (Gerhild), HILL (C.). [DUAS ELECTROGRAFIAS DE POESIA VISUAL]. Halle (Saale) / EUA. s.d. [c. 1985-1990]. - EBEL (Gerhild), HILL (C.) [DUAS ELECTROGRAFIAS DE POESIA VISUAL] . Halle (Saale) / EUA: s.n., s.d. [c. 1985-1990]. 2 ff.: il.; 215×140 mm. A set of two electrographic works of visual poetry from an international context within mail art. The first is by Gerhild Ebel (Halle/Saale, 1965), a German artist and author active since the mid-1980s in experimental literature and art at the intersection of language, image, and science, with works in over fifty international museums and collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), MoMA (New York), and the Victoria & Albert Museum (London). The composition—text printed in mirror image, legible only through transparency against the light—is characteristic of her exploration of the visibility and opacity of language as plastic material. The second is by C. Hill (USA), whose poem obsessively repeats, on a page almost entirely filled by typewriter, the phrase ”I havn't time” until the last line, where the sequence is completed with ”to write” - a conceptual gesture rooted in Fluxus that transforms the impossibility of writing into the very act of writing, through compulsive repetition. An unusual collection. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate