Silvestre Pestana
Event
The artist said about the avatar poems he has created: “I am beginning the deliberate production of a poetic, through social media, addressed to the portuguese digital natives, who are failing in the examinations of the Portuguese nuclear discipline, for instance with [19th Century Portuguese writer] Eça de Queirós.”
Bio
Silvestre Pestana (1949, Funchal, Madeira), poet, artist and performer. Emerges from a group of experimental poets of the 1960s. Holder of a multidisciplinary work, recently, in 2016, the artist exhibited at the Fundação de Serralves, where more than 100 works of the artist were gathered, many of them rarely were seen before, as well as documents and archival materials.
