Revolutie II, 1972
Photography, 60 x 70 cm.
© image: M HKA
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK3966).
Among the visual poems in which the limited typography of the typewriter has been relinquished in favour of a highly developed graphic elaboration of the text, one finds one of De Vree’s most famous poems, Revolutie II (1972). The letters are arranged in a circle and each letter is cut in half. The inner half has been shifted slightly to the right in relation to the outer half. This displacement of the word image yields a distorted visual pattern, which, precisely through its disruptive character, summarises the essence of a revolution. Both the word and the concept (break, shift, rotation) are turned into images.
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Artist
> Paul De Vree.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Paul De Vree. Provinciaal Begijnhof, Hasselt, 19 September 1981 - 08 November 1981.
> Exhibition: Paul De Vree: Neonlicht [Paul De Vree: Neon Light]. M HKA, Antwerp, 05 October 2012 - 20 January 2013.
> Exhibition: Meeting Points 7 – Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 October 2013 - 16 February 2014.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Cultuurstraten 2009. M HKA, Groenzone Van Leenstraat, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, 29 August 2009 - 12 September 2009.
> Ensemble: Poesia Visiva.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
> Ensemble: Poetical License.
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> Ensemble: Poetic Vision.
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>Paul De Vree, Revolutie, 1968-2002.Print, ink, canvas, 98 x 98 cm.