Padin, Clemente (Essay & Curator) - III Bienal de Poesia Visual, Experimental y Alternativa Sección Cono Sur Latinoamericano: Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (1990)

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Clemente Padin (Essay & Curator).

III Bienal de Poesia Visual, Experimental y Alternativa Sección Cono Sur Latinoamericano: Argentina, Chile y Uruguay.

Montevideo, Uruguay: Goethe Institut Montevideo, 1990.

Staple-bound softcover.
24 pages.
Spanish.

Very good.
Light soiling and edgewear to covers.

Scarce catalog for the Latin American Southern Cone section of the Third Biennial of Visual, Experimental & Alternative Poetry which was on view from June 4-8th 1990 and was published by Goethe Institut Montevideo, sponsored by IMM: Departamento de Cultura and organized by Núcleo Post Arte de México. This section of the Biennial was curated by Clemente Padín, who also wrote the accompanying essay and coordinated by Jorge Echenique. Illustrations of 21 works by artists including: Clemente Padín, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Jorge Caraballo, Horacio Zabala, Mirtha Dermisache, Guillermo Deisler, Amanda Berenguer, etc.

The entire show was recorded and sent, along with all the exhibited works, to the III Biennial that was held in July at the Universidad Autónoma de México. The Núcleo Uruguayo de Video Arte collaborated.

The following artists, organized by country, took part in the Biennial:

ARGENTINA: Luis Cadelli, Mario Gemin, Alfredo Mauderli, Jorge Orta, Carlos Pamparana, Claudia del Río, Hilda Paz, Mariana Paula Perata, Edgardo Antonio Vigo; Grupo Escombros, composed of Horacio D'Alessandro, Luis Pazos, Héctor Puppo, and Juan Carlos Romero, and the Grupo de La Plata, composed of Martin Eckmeyer, Graciela Gutiérrez Marx, Silvia Lalli, and Susana Lombardo.

CHILE: Guillermo Deisler, Eduardo Díaz Espinoza, Manuel Escobar, and César Olhagaray.

URUGUAY: Amanda Berenguer, Magdalena Blanco, Jorge Caraballo, Silvia Cardoso, Jorge de Agosto, Jorge Echenique (h), Carlos Fariello and Buriano, Celma García, Dardo Villaverde, María Gutermann, Christian Kupchik, Clemente Padín, Eduardo Roland, Jhonny Rodríguez, Gerardo Lucero, Alcira Sout, Rubén Tani. In the context of videos, the Grupo Fabla, composed of Víctor Cunha, Jorge Luis Hernández, Luis Pereira, Atilio Pérez Da Cunha, Edgard Sención, and Elder Silva, and with a video of their own, the poet Carlos Pellegrino.

A Uruguayan artist, poet, and publisher, Padin edited the influential literary magazines Los Huevos del Plata and OVUM 10 which put him in contact with the international avant garde. A participant in mail art, his artistic and political endeavors landed him in jail in the late '70s and surveilled upon release til the mid '80s, deemed a threat by Uruguay's military dictatorship.