Decio Pignatari

Décio Pignatari (Jundiaí, São Paulo, 1927 - São Paulo, São Paulo, 2012). Poet, essayist, translator, short story writer, novelist, playwright and teacher. Son of Italian immigrants, shortly after his birth, the family moves to Osasco, where Pignatari lives until he is 25. He published his first poems in the Revista Brasileira de Poesia, in 1949. The following year, he published his first book of poems, Carrossel, and, in 1952, he founded the group and published the magazine-book Noigandres, with his friends, the poet-brothers Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) and Augusto de Campos (1931). He graduated in law from the University of São Paulo (USP) in 1953, and then travelled to Europe, where he stayed for two years. With the Noigandres Group, in 1956, he officially launched the movement of concrete poetry, during the National Exhibition of Concrete Art at the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo - MAM/SP, which was held consecutively in the lobby of the Ministry of Education and Culture - MEC, in Rio de Janeiro. In 1956, the group published the Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry, translated into several languages. In 1965, still with Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, he published the book Teoria da Poesia Concreta. Besides his critical and literary work, he also researched semiotics - in 1969, he helped found the Association Internationale de Sémiotique - AIS, in France, and, in 1975, he participated in the launching of the Brazilian Association of Semiotics - ABS.

Por: Galeria Gravura Brasileira