How did you first come to visual poetry? What is it about the form that resonates?
I approached visual poetry by working on the words of some writers or poets, obviously not to illustrate them, but to contaminate them with other media in order to form a new expressive language. At the beginning of my research I worked on the words of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Albert Camus, Emily Dickinson etc..
In my works the form coincides with the content: the two things absolutely cannot be separated.
How does a visual poem begin?
Generally my visual poems arise from a great desire to experiment. I believe that without experimentation it is impossible to create a new work.
Do you see your work as a single, extended project, or a series of threads that occasionally weave together to form something else?
Since, as I said before, mine is essentially experimental work, sometimes it has happened to me that it has taken shape in a completely random way.
How do you see your visual art and visual poetry in conversation, if at all?
I see my art essentially as a set of signs and colors that can give life to a thousand different sensations
Have you a daily schedule by which you work, or are you working to fit this in between other activities?
I don't have any daily schedule. The only thing I need is to alternate various activities throughout the day
What are your favourite print or online literary journals?
Maintenant – Journal of Contemporary Dada Poetry, Nyugat Plusz, Crocodarium, Nuire, NationalPoetryMonth, ToCall, Die Leere Mitte, Pocket Lint, Word For/Word, Frequenze Poetiche, Dialogue, Guest, StreetCake Magazine, Utsanga, The Minute Review, Il Cucchiaio nell’Orecchio, Ouste, Ranger Magazine, BlazeVOX Journal, Buzdokuz Poetry Theory Criticism Magazine, Olga - poésie non poésie, Bufo etc
Who are some of the artists you have engaged with lately that most excite you?
I'm generally always enthusiastic about other people's work. I like to observe it and understand it ,so I have great respect for all the artists, poets or writers I see.
Angela Caporaso was born in 1962. A visual artist from Caserta (Italy), she began to take an interest in figurative arts in the eighties, exhibiting repeatedly both in Italy and abroad.
Angela Caporaso's art has always been characterized by a
constant research and experimentation.
Since her first exhibitions she has revealed a constant
strain towards new expressive languages.
This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with
colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium
was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world.
Angela Caporaso focusing on artists’ books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats.
Many of her works are part of both public and private collections.
Her work appears in Maintenant – Journal of Contemporary Dada Poetry, Nyugat Plusz, Crocodarium, Nuire, NationalPoetryMonth, ToCall, Die Leere Mitte, Pocket Lint, Word For/Word, Frequenze Poetiche, Dialogue, Guest, StreetCake Magazine, Utsanga, The Minute Review, Il Cucchiaio nell’Orecchio, Ouste, Ranger Magazine, BlazeVOX Journal, Buzdokuz Poetry Theory Criticism Magazine, Olga - poésie non poésie, Bufo etc
Her latest publications are: The Relationships, Timglaset Editions, Il Dubbio, Gap Riot Press, Dots, Half Day Moon Press, Rain, Paper view Independent Publishing, Wars, above/ground press, Passi nel passato, Asatami Legesse Edizioni.