Mirella Bentivoglio, born in Klagenfurt in 1922, lived in Rome. She was an Italian artist, poet and performer who worked in the field of verb-visual poetics. Since 1965 she has been involved in concrete poetry and visual poetry as a critic and artist, creating compositions with words and images, collages, graphic techniques. From experiments with concrete poetry, which enhance the visual aspects of writing, she moved on to visual poetry, which more freely associates writing and image, and to object-poetry, which operates linguistic interventions on objects and environments.
