Eugenio Murrali - Vatican City

Among the corridors of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, one can have an unusual and edifying experience during these Jubilee days: walking inside poetry. The walls are inhabited by over two hundred works from an exhibition that makes history: Global Visual Poetry 1950-1980, curated by Raffaella Perna. The Prefect of the Dicastery, Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, writes in his presentation of the exhibition: ‘The creators of Visual Poetry remind us that in the most functional human writing, in our measured, minuscule or administrative handwriting, pulses the poetic possibility that from one instant to the next makes any letter “as illegible as the tiger”, that is, a document not of the answer but of the question; not of the evidence, but of the enigma; not just predictable morpheme of the visible, but disruptive syntax of what is unseen.’ The exhibition recounts the experimental use of the relationship between image and language, which has been expressed in many countries around the world since the post-war period: "An artistic experimentation that has connected very different realities, starting from a reflection on the political value of the word and the ability to transmit messages also starting from its iconic quality.