Giovanna Sandri (1923-2002) graduated in Naples with a thesis on Ruskin's
Aesthetics.
She taught English literature in Rome. An artist and poet of the avant-garde generation of the '60s-'70s,
she pursued a work of singular poetic and visual completeness.
Since 1960, her research has focused on signs and letters of the alphabet, understood as combinatory nuclei of energies.
She published poetry books whose texts emerge visually from the white page, composing themselves into dynamic rhythms.
She participated in the most important national and international visual poetry exhibitions, including the Quadriennale di Roma (1968), Biennale di Bolzano (1969), Biennale di Venezia (1978), Biennale di San Paolo (1981).
Included in various avant-garde poetry anthologies in Italy and the United States, she collaborated with visual texts, essays, and poems for numerous Italian and foreign magazines, including 'Marcatre', 'Grammatica', 'Harch', 'Tam tam', 'Periodo ipotetico', 'Uomini e idee', 'Il caffè', 'Altri Termini', 'Anterem', 'Green River Review', 'Shuttle', 'Invisible City', 'Shantih', 'Italian Poetry Today' (USA), 'Drailles-Cette Italie', 'Modern Italian Poetry' (Taiwan), 'Antologija Koktretne in Vizualne poezije', 'Le parole rampanti', 'Il cavallo di Troia', 'HowEver'.
Personal exhibitions: Galleria Civica d'Arte Modena; Palazzo Te, Mantova; Libreria Internazionale COLP Torino.
Publications: Capitolo Zero, Lerici, Roma 1969 (photo); da K a S (dimora dell'assimetrico), Out of London Press, Milano/New York 1976; dal cangura allaithyia (o come farsi scrittura), Le parole gelate, Roma/Venezia 1980; also for Le parole gelate: Hermes the Jolly (1983); il numero dimenticato-delle memorie ortagonali (o come il re si smarrì nel diafano); Hourglass: the rhythm of traces (trad. G. Bennett) Clessidra: il ritmo delle tracce, Anterem Edizioni Verona 1992 (Lorenzo Montano Prize); Le dieci porte di Zhuangzi In memoriam di Giacinto Scelsi, Le parole gelate, Roma 1994; Seeing Eye Books (Los Angeles, 1998).
Giovanna Sandri, n.8/9 of the magazine 'le parole Rampanti', Rome 1988.
She taught English literature in Rome. An artist and poet of the avant-garde generation of the '60s-'70s,
she pursued a work of singular poetic and visual completeness.
Since 1960, her research has focused on signs and letters of the alphabet, understood as combinatory nuclei of energies.
She published poetry books whose texts emerge visually from the white page, composing themselves into dynamic rhythms.
She participated in the most important national and international visual poetry exhibitions, including the Quadriennale di Roma (1968), Biennale di Bolzano (1969), Biennale di Venezia (1978), Biennale di San Paolo (1981).
Included in various avant-garde poetry anthologies in Italy and the United States, she collaborated with visual texts, essays, and poems for numerous Italian and foreign magazines, including 'Marcatre', 'Grammatica', 'Harch', 'Tam tam', 'Periodo ipotetico', 'Uomini e idee', 'Il caffè', 'Altri Termini', 'Anterem', 'Green River Review', 'Shuttle', 'Invisible City', 'Shantih', 'Italian Poetry Today' (USA), 'Drailles-Cette Italie', 'Modern Italian Poetry' (Taiwan), 'Antologija Koktretne in Vizualne poezije', 'Le parole rampanti', 'Il cavallo di Troia', 'HowEver'.
Personal exhibitions: Galleria Civica d'Arte Modena; Palazzo Te, Mantova; Libreria Internazionale COLP Torino.
Publications: Capitolo Zero, Lerici, Roma 1969 (photo); da K a S (dimora dell'assimetrico), Out of London Press, Milano/New York 1976; dal cangura allaithyia (o come farsi scrittura), Le parole gelate, Roma/Venezia 1980; also for Le parole gelate: Hermes the Jolly (1983); il numero dimenticato-delle memorie ortagonali (o come il re si smarrì nel diafano); Hourglass: the rhythm of traces (trad. G. Bennett) Clessidra: il ritmo delle tracce, Anterem Edizioni Verona 1992 (Lorenzo Montano Prize); Le dieci porte di Zhuangzi In memoriam di Giacinto Scelsi, Le parole gelate, Roma 1994; Seeing Eye Books (Los Angeles, 1998).
Giovanna Sandri, n.8/9 of the magazine 'le parole Rampanti', Rome 1988.
Biography sourced from: M. Carloni, Poesia e figure in Giovanna Sandri, Thesis, University of Tuscia, Viterbo - 2000/01