Patrizia Vicinelli (23 August 1943 in Bologna – 9 January 1991) was an Italian poet, writer, artist and actress.
Vincinelli was born in Bologna, where she grew up. She enrolled at the University of Bologna with the ambition to become a Literare Professor but never completed her studies. In the early 1960s, she started performing sound poetry and concrete poetry. In 1966, she attended a conference held in La Spezia by the avant-garde literary group and was later invited to become a member.
She contributed to literary magazines such as Alfabeta, Doc(k)s, Marcatré, Ex and Quindici.
Her work in experimental theatre and contemporary music brought her to collaborate with poets and writers such as Emilio Villa, Adriano Spatola and Franco Beltrametti.
She also performed in avant-garde films such as In viaggio con Patrizia (1965) and Virulentia (1967) by Alberto Grifi; La Notte e il giorno by Gianni Castagnoli (1967); and Toxic Love by Claudio Caligari (1983).
Vicinelli died in Bologna in 1991.
Selected bibliography à,a.A, Lerici, Milan, 1967 Ezio Gribaudo: Il peso del concreto, Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo, Turin, 1967 Continuum: Foglio a redazione collettiva, no. 4, Continuum, Naples, 1970 Signos Espacio Arte – exposicion internacional de la poesia concreta al arte conceptual, Club Pueblo, Madrid, 1973 Arti visive, poesia visiva, Editrice Magma, Rome, 1974 Oggi Poesia Domani. Rassegna internazionale di poesia visuale e fonetica, Fiuggi Editore, Frosinone, 1979 El Lissitzky: Due quadrati, Tau/ma, Bologna, 1979 Apology of a Schizoid Woman, Tau/ma, Bologna, 1979 Il colpo di glottide. La poesia come fisicità e materia, Vallecchi Editore, Florence, 1980 Mini 3, Scorribanda Productions, Riva San Vitale, Switzerland, 1986 Non sempre ricordano, AElia Laelia, Bologna, 1986 Scrittura visuale in Italia 1912-1972, Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, 1973 Nanni Balestrini, Franco Vaccari, Patrizia Vicinelli: A Column, a Bar, a Voice, Archivio di Nuova Scrittura, Milan, 1994
Further reading Renato Pedio (ed.), Patrizia Vicinelli: Opere, Scheiwiller, Milan, 1994. Cecilia Bello Minciacchi (ed.), Patrizia Vicinelli: Non sempre ricordano. Poesia prosa performance, Le Lettere, Florence, 2009. V. A., Chicago Quarterly Review Volume 20: The Italian Issue, Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, Chicago, 2015.
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