Angela Caporaso : Three poems

 

 

 

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Angela Caporaso was born in 1962. A visual artist from Caserta (Italy), she began to take an interest in figurative arts in the eighties, exhibiting repeatedly both in Italy and abroad.

Angela Caporaso's art has always been characterized by a constant research and experimentation.

Since her first exhibitions she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages.

This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world.

She has worked on the words of the main contemporary writers and has dedicated some of her exhibitions to Albert Camus, Emily Dickinson, Pier Vittorio Tondelli.

Influenced by Pop Art, she has inserted in her works the typical comics “bubbles”, as well as advertising references, decontextualized and transformed into a proper artistic language.

She has worked with unrecyclable waste material, humble and inert, which has acquired new sense and meaning thanks to the artist’s intervention.

Angela Caporaso focusing on artists’ books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats.

Many of her works are part of both public and private collections.

Her work appears in Maintenant – Journal of Contemporary Dada Poetry, Nyugat Plusz, Crocodarium, Nuire, NationalPoetryMonth, ToCall, Die Leere Mitte, Pocket Lint, Word For/Word, Frequenze Poetiche, Dialogue, Guest, StreetCake Magazine, Utsanga, The Minute Review, Il Cucchiaio nell’Orecchio, Ouste, Ranger Magazine, BlazeVOX Journal, Buzdokuz Poetry Theory Criticism Magazine, Olga - poésie non poésie, Bufo etc

Her latest publications are : The Relationships Timglaset Editions, Il Dubbio Gap Riot Press , Dots Half Day Moon Press, Rain Paper view  Independent Publishing, Wars above/ground press, Passi nel passato Asatami Legesse Edizioni.

Angela Caporaso : on Wars

 

 

 

 

 

 

This collection is inspired by several poems written by Wystan Hugh Auden, an English poet whose life, as we all know, was affected by the outbreak of various conflicts: we can recollect, for example, his famous poem “Funeral Blues” written for a friend who died in war. Another poem that should be mentioned and inspired this collection is the one that Auden wrote in memory of William Butler Yeats, who died in 1939, the year that the Second World War began and, as we all know, stained with blood first Europe and then the entire world.

In the poem “In memory of W.B. Yeats,” Auden writes “... In the nightmare of the dark, / All the dogs of Europe bark, / And the living nations wait, / Each sequestered in its hate;...”

These dramatic, intense lines express the horrendous nightmare that was soon to engulf Europe, lines that are unfortunately all too relevant today given the historical moment we are living at this time with the hateful war in Ukraine and the devastating situation in the Middle East.

 

 

 

 

Angela Caporaso was born in 1962 and she is a visual artist from Caserta (Italy). She has begun to take an interest in figurative arts since the eighties, exhibiting repeatedly both in Italy and abroad. Many of her works are part of public and private collection adding numerous publications to her credit. Angela Caporaso is focusing on visual poetry and artists books, working with collages, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats. http://www.angelacaporaso.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angela Caporaso : Five poems

 

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Silenzi familiari

 

 

Silenzi mattutini

 

 

Silenzi serali

 

 

Solitudine

 

 

 

 

Angela Caporaso is an Italian artist focusing on artists books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats.

Since her first exhibitions, which date back to the eighties, she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages.

This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world.

http://www.angelacaporaso.com/