Poetry everywhere

Author: Paolo

  • Cryptovoxels: a gallery hosts my cryptopunk poetry in the metaverse

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    Cryptovoxels is a virtual world built on the blockchain. An art gallery, present only in that virtual or metaverse world, Gallery 90, chose some of my works of cryptopunk poetry and exhibited them in the metaverse. In the age of total dematerialization of everything, it should no longer surprise us that there are virtual worlds…

  • Cryptopunk poetry. A good investment for collectors and new spaces for poetic research.

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    Cryptopunk poetry. In this wonderful phase of artistic experimentation poetry must find new spaces. And if the medium is the message, in the new spaces it must find new flavors and new languages. One of the artistic phenomena of the moment is certainly what happened with cryptopunks. The idea of representing 24 24-pixel (therefore via…

  • NFT poems: is this a new era for poets?

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    NFT poems. I don’t think I’m the first in the world to reflect on NFT poems. I’m certainly one of the first, and the first Italian. But primates don’t matter here. What matters is this revolutionary substance in which the whole world is boiling. Especially that of art. Poetry is art and as such must…

  • Blockchain poetry: what is it?

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    Blockchain poetry. What does that mean? Poetry (that is not dead) is a blockchain. Probably the oldest form of blockchain. Check my blockchain poems What is, in the end, a blockchain? It is a shared and “immutable” data structure made such by an encryption system.And what is a poem formally composed of?Sequences of not replaceable…

  • Street poetry, that’s how I started

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    Street poetry. Maybe I brought poetry into street art. Or maybe in the graffiti art. Or maybe I got lost in the bush that critics like so much. Or maybe I just smeared a wall with words. I don’t know, man. What I do know is that I felt the need to take some verses…

  • Amanda Gorman: some reasons to be terrified

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    Amanda Gorman. Anyone who’s interested in literature and poetry today is talking about her, the Afro-American poet who read at President Biden’s inauguration. All American feminists have elected her as a new idol. Just as she became an idol of the Obamas and of all the major Democrat charachters of the poltically correct drama. And…

  • Poetry: why I think it’s already saving the world

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    Poetry. The only soul medicine that I’ve seen really working is this. I’ve seen it in my life, I see it in other people every day. Poetry heals, because it brings light to the darkest recesses of the soul. It saves, because it draws directly from the sources of Beauty. It makes us grow, because…

  • I dreamed a dream exhibition, Chapter 1

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    I dreamed a dream exhibition, Chapter 1 Venice 30.11.2019 – 07.03.2020. Curated by Domenico De Chirico. Marignana Art Gallery. Poetry in matterPoetry that slips into the folds of the image seeking to grasp unwritten meanings. There are countlessexamples in History in which poetry and visual art interchanged winks. We just need to drop by the…

  • Giuseppe Adamo

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    Giuseppe Adamo, Marignana Arte I imitate a layered horizon Discreet brushstroke of a universal picture, Plants, stones and metals transpire. With my eyelids I seize A new creation Eyelashes caress imperfections In dimensions that shake hands

  • Venice Carnival 2020: art and poetry meet

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    Venice Carnival 2020. On the occasion of the 2020 Venice carnival I was commissioned to decorate one of the twelve doves that according to ancient tradition are associated with the twelve “Marys” of the carnival. Invited by dr. Roberto Zamberlan of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation I prepared a poem that could decorate one of…