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BURNT POEM
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“BURNT POEM” / “HOM[M]AGE TO OSWALDO[sic] DE ANDRADE”
/ (are poems to be discovered also with the help of your hands.) /
“M EMORY, MEMORY” (REMEMBER.) / “A LIFE ALIVE (A BURNT
PERFUME)” / “COUNTRY PEOPLE TOOTH TIGER MOUTH” / Are
radicals experiences, deep, vivencias of my past life. / MEMORIA − MY
ROOT. // I belong to a different cultural background. / I can simply tell
you that I am from Below the Equator. / Perhaps that will help a little
but I do not think that will help much. / I can for instance explain that I ‘
am concern more with the structures and with the process in itself than
with the final object. / I think that I never create any objects, But from a
different [...] from a special kind, that / I preffer[sic] to call non-objects.#
/ MY CONCERNS with Language dated from several years ago, but
itseens / to me that the most important experiences were made in Brazil
after 67. / I started constructing gigantic letters to be putted outside that
I called / the “PRIMARY BOOK”. This afterwards expandedto thehuge
size words-propositions // that would occupy Brazilian great open
spaces, the tropical landscape. / such as are the propositions OF BIG
SIZE CLEAR FLOATING LETTERS on the Guanabara Bay in Rio / de
Janeiro. That will be a kind of intervention in nature. You will be reading
/ redundantly MAR AZUL MARAZUL (BLUE SEA BLUESEA). OR A I R
inthe top of the / old round mountains that surrounded the city of Rio. /
A propose this as an open situation they are made not to brainwashing
or to repress nobody they simply are there. Sometimes these words
/ only reflect the changes of lights, or the natural humid steams and
colors ilusions on the surface of Rio’s Bay. / Dated to the same year
are EARTH and WATER, big / containers with letters reffering to the
same elements earth and water. to be put on the ground / these works
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GERCHMAN, Rubens
. Burnt poem
. Escritos do artista como parte de seu processo criativo para
a obra
Burnt poem
(1969-1971). Documento manuscrito, s.l. [Nova York], s.d. [1969-1971]. Acervo
Instituto Rubens Gerchman. (N.O.).