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Falves Silva
Cacimba, Brazil, 1943
One of the pioneering artists of the Poem/Process movement, Falves Silva is one of the main names of visual and experimental poetry in Brazil, next to Moacy Cirne, Wlademir Dias Pino, Álvaro de Sá, and Neide Sá. His production is based on the convergence of two of the main axes of Brazilian art: concrete movement and conceptual art. The artist dialogues with literature, cinema and comics, manipulating communicative structures and images from the history of art and mass communication. In 1967, he participated in the inaugural exhibition-manifesto of the …