Plaza Julio (1938-2003) Objetos Serigrafias Originais ; Augusto de Campos Poema.

Plaza, Julio (1938-2003) Objetos Serigrafias Originais ; Augusto de Campos Poema. Sao Paolo, Brazil: Julio Pacella, 1969. First and only edition, one of thirty numbered signed copies; thirteen separate portfolios housed in publisher's cloth folder and slipcase as such: title, poem by Augusto de Campos, ten folding Objetos each signed in pencil by Julio Plaza and numbered VI, colophon; fading to slipcase and spine of cloth folder, some offsetting and a minor tear or two to the pop-ups, 15 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. "The paths of the two [Plaza and Campos] crossed in 1968, not by coincidence but by the magnetic force of 'elective affinity.' Plaza was preparing his Objetos . Two superimposed sheets of paper, creating a deliberate interplay of cross-sections and folds, projected three-dimensional forms which were at once geometric and organic. A series of these, printed by a silk-screen process, and combining the three primary colors, made up a book comprising page-objects which leaped out of the flat surface to open up into space. Plaza asked de Campos to write a critical introduction to this strange book. De Campos gave the only foreseeable reply: instead of a text, he wanted to make a journey inside the creation itself. For him, words are also plastic, sensitive bodies. The support Plaza offered him (planes, space, sculpture, color, shades, movement, and light) permitted the insertion of word bodies into the play of pure and multiple qualities. The first Poemobile was thus born and Read more…