Opiemme

Opiemme's practice investigates the boundaries between words and images, looking for new ways of presenting poetry.

The artist is heir to an important twentieth-century tradition of visual poetry and connected to those avant-garde that have used text and language-based art.

The Lux Gallery presents selected artworks from the latest abstract series "Beyond Clouds".

Opiemme practice has been dominated by calligrams and a legible text-based art, but in recent works the artist fuses words and abstract imagery.

Opiemme's handwriting is not calligraphy, it distorts and dissolves the words into emotions and movements, without creating an alphabet, it wants to bring poetry through form beyond form.
Since 2000 Opiemme's research has been focused on public art aimed at spreading poetry to the public, with collective performances, installations and street poetry interventions. 

This led Opiemme to perform in different European cities in collaboration with various poets' foundations with the aim of creating new opportunities for reading, as for the mural painted for the Fernando Pessoa and Josè Saramago Foundations in Lisbon, or a 12 story facade dedicated to Wisława Szymborska poetry in Gdansk.