Visual Poetry is already inside the program of the I IBP: Obranome2, will be shown at the National Museum, by the curator Wagner Barja, divided into the following segments: Invited Artists Collective Exhibition, Mallarmé and Apollinaire, Object-Book, and Mail Art. The graphic artist and poet Wladimir Dias Pino will be honored by the Obranome2 – Visual Poetry Expo.
The Invited Artists Collective Exhibition will be one of the highlights of the program, by presenting works of many visual poets, such as Adolfo Montejo Navas, Augusto de Campos, Hugo Pontes, Hugo Mund Jr., Marcelo Sahea, Márcio Almeida, Rubens Jardim and Xico Chaves from Brazil.
Another segment that will integrate this great show is Mail Art, whose selection of works will be done soon, via an open call of woks made to interested artists, via mail.
French Poetry The Embassy of France confirmed the coming from France to Brazil of the show Mallarmé and Apollinaire, the coming of a French poet to the Biennial as well as a critic to join the Poetry Critics Symposium. The French will also join the visual poetry program, sharing the space with Brazil in the show Object-Book. The Biennial of Poetry in Brasilia will be a previous presentation of the Year of France in Brazil, to be celebrated in 2009.
Obranome2 will include indoor and outdoor visual projections of poems with urban intervention, and will also offer workshops of Multimedia Poetry with a program fully dedicated to the theme in the Symposium on Poetry Critics. The release of a catalog with texts and photos of the event will be the closing point of the Biennial.
