Eva Presenhuber, Zurich 
February 18 – March 25, 2017

In Space Forgets You, John Giorno continues to expand his oeuvre, where new media and modes of representation are introduced and further extend the perceived boundaries of poetry. His poetic language – and the way he presents it –is as unique as the broad vocabulary he employs in his work.

Verses like “LIFE IS A KILLER” or “EVERYONE IS A COMPLETE DISAPPOINTMENT,” originally found in his poems, are transformed into bold, visual works in Giorno's poem paintings.

These explosive lines both provoke identification and further contemplation. The starting point of Giorno's poem paintings and his poetic language lies in a revelation he made as early as the 1960s: Poetry, Giorno noted, was at least 75 years behind visual art in its development. While the emerging pop-artists started to find their sources in mass-culture and to integrate newspapers and advertisements into their works, poetry still remained within its established modernist paradigm.

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