This is a hypothesis on the avant-garde outlook that evolved in the city of Recife (in the state of Pernambuco) and its ties with Tropicalismo, internationalism, the dialogue with “what is European” and the rest of the world, while at the same time taking into account the natural local wisdom and the “homem do cangaço” (the population of laborers that in the early 1930s joined to wage a guerrilla war against the ideals of the federal government).
Wlademir Dias-Pino (b. 1927) is a poet, a visual artist, and a graphic designer. Although a native of Rio de Janeiro, he began his career in Cuiabá [in the state of Mato Grosso]. Decades later, he started writing visual poetry, participating both in the Concrete poetry movement and the poema/processo that later came to significantly question it in the early 1960s. His work was included in the exhibition Exposição Nacional de Arte Concreta in 1956, as well as in the ninth and the fourteenth São Paulo Biennials, held in 1967 and 1977, respectively. He was also part of the faculty at the PUC-RJ (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) between 1973 and 1978, as well as at the UFMG (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso) in Cuiabá from 1978 to 1993.
[Available in the ICAA digital archive are two texts written by the author that were printed in the Boletim Diário, which were authored by Wladepino (Wlademir Dias-Pino): “América Latina, ahora! Acción postal” (doc. no. 1111014), and possibly another one, due to its content, regarding the renewal of the entire region of the Amazonia in Brazil, entitled “Útil e alternativo” (doc. no. 1111019)].
The writer and journalist José Neumanne Pinto (b. 1951) was born in the state of Paraíba, later working in São Paulo in the 1970s and regularly contributing to the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo and the Jornal do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro).