After two years of research, Galeria Superfície is pleased to present the exhibition Poema/Processo 50 years: a semiological vanguard. The exhibition recalls the movement’s first exhibitions and artistic manifestations, which began in December 1967 and were inaugurated simultaneously in Natal and Rio de Janeiro — when the group launched its manifesto and its proposals, featuring artists from the states of Minas Gerais, Bahia, Rio Grande do Norte, Espírito Santo and Pernambuco.

Resulting from concretism, the Poema/Processo movement emerges as a creative break with institutionalized communication in the field of literature, poetry, cinema and plastic arts. First, there was a need to separate poem and poetry, with poetry as an abstract concept, and poem as a tactile, material object, plausible to be torn and manipulated. Afterwards, the concept of poem was radically expanded, being produced by the group, visual-poems, object-poems, poems to be ripped, poems to be burned, edible poems, film-poems and happening-poem.

The exhibition will take place in the gallery space in Jardins and simultaneously at Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, which receives works from the movement as an extension of the exhibition. Unpublished historical works produced between 1966 and 1977 will be on display by artists such as Wlademir Dias-Pino, Alvaro de Sá, Neide Sá, Décio Pignatari, Falves Silva, Moacy Cirne, Paulo Bruscky, Anchieta Fernandes, Márcio Sampaio, Joaquim Branco, P.J. Ribeiro, Ronaldo Wernek, among others.

On the same day, the film “Apocalipopótese — Guerra & Paz” (1968), by poet and documentarist Raymundo Amando, which recorded one of the first exhibitions of the movement, will be screened in the auditorium of the Library, in the activities proposed by Frederico Moraes at the event “Arte no Aterro”, no Aterro do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro.