Poor.Old.Tired.Horse at the Institute for Contemporary Arts

By Alex Hopkins Published: 03 July 2009 Exhibition : Poor.Old.Tired.Horse, Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, until 23 August A fascinating exhibition has opened at The Institute for Contemporary Arts that sheds some welcome light on the Concrete Poetry movement of the 1960s. The show features work by a group of artists who experimented with the typographical arrangement of words, investing them with as much importance as conventional elements of a poem. The effects were unprecedented and astonishing, producing a remarkable fusion of art and literature. Springing up from an international exhibition in Brazil in 1956, Concrete Poetry was inspired by the works of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who believed that emphasising the visual quality of words in a poem gave them a central function as part of the verse. Liiane Lijn,... [read full story]                    

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