"My interest in urban interventions started in 1966, at the very beginning of my work in visual poetry. That year I created, with the assistance of Annalisa Alloatti, the sequence MONUMENT (MONUMENTO), which was first published in 1968 by De Luca. It is one of my very first works, and the first story ever to be built with a single word and its fragments. It is not only the contestation of monumentality as rhetoric and fetishism, but also the revelation of rhetoric and fetishism as "monumentality" in all fields (art, poetry, politics). The "monument" is visualized with the letters of the Italian word itself ("monumento") throught the verbal suggestions contained within it: "nume" (=godlike); "me non tu" (=me not you); "mento" (=I am mutating); "temo" (=I fear). It is a structure of transformation: the monument recognizes its non-communicative nature; it doubts; it falls; it mutates; it fears change; it becomes pure rhythm."

Mirella Bentivoglio

Bentivoglio Box 3 has the cover/folio for P2003.12.6a-f.

Frances K. Pohl, Pages: Mirella Bentivoglio Selected Works 1966-2012 (Claremont: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2015), 18-23 (illustrated/ bw), fig. 6.
Francis K. Pohl, Love and Joy About Letters: The Work of Ben Shahn and Mirella Bentivoglio (Claremont: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2003), 25 (illustrated/color).

This object has the following keywords:

• Monuments
• Words

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Love and Joy About Letters: the work of Ben Shahn and Mirella Bentivolio Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College , 8/30/2003 - 12/21/2003
• Pages: Mirella Bentivoglio, Selected Works 1966-2012 Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College , 1/20/2015 - 5/17/2015

This object has the following bibliographic references:

• Pages: Mirella Bentivoglio, Selected Works 1966-2012. Pages: Mirella Bentivoglio, Selected Works 1966-2012 Pomona College Museum of Art. Claremont, CA, 2015
  Page Number: 18-23, Figure Number: 6
• Love and Joy About Letters. Love and Joy About Letters Pomona College Museum of Art. Claremont, CA, 2003
  Page Number: 25

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