Visual Poetry

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Clemente Padín is a Uruguayan experimental poet, artist & graphic designer.

He was also a pioneering promoter of artist networks, and organized many exhibitions dedicated to visual poetry and mail art in the 60's and 70's.

🧵 Sharing a series of his artworks in this thread 🧵 

'Texto III', 1968

artist & poet
exploring text & language
through sound & visual poetry

AND he did a "portrait" of me (my name, anyway) that looked like the sky was raining letters, for one of my old zines!!!

I'm old and I make art. Searching for Endarkenment!

https://www.patreon.com/richardfyates

I can't find the portrait, but here's a Padin from 2006 (from PHANTOM CONVERSATION zine.)