Ferreira Gullar
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Ferreira Gullar is the pen name for poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer José Ribamar Ferreira. He was born in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil on September 10, 1930. In 1959 he formed the "Neo-Concretes" group of poets.
The Neo-Concrete Manifesto of that year by him begins:
- We use the term "neo-concrete" to differentiate ourselves from those committed to non-figurative "geometric" art (neo-plasticism, constructivism, suprematism, the school of Ulm) and particularly the kind of concrete art that is influenced by a dangerously acute rationalism. In the light of their artistic experience, the painters, sculptors, engravers and writers participating in this first Neo-concrete Exhibition came to the conclusion that it was necessary to evaluate the theoretical principles on which concrete art has been founded, none of which offers a rationale for the expressive potential they feel their art contains."
Later he lived in exile in Argentina and Chile. On returning he has done some TV work.
