Les collages d’Alfonso López Gradolí: dislocation, amoncellement et aporie des bouts de papier pour la construction d’une voi

Abstract

Since the middle of the XX th century, paper or object collage is a modality of Visual poetry. In experimental poems, the heterogeneity of fragments, which defines the collage, is added to the heterogeneity of processes and arts in presence (writing, painting, photography, etc.). Alfonso Lopez Gradoli is certainly the only author who practices the collage with such a constancy. He published in 1971 Quiza Brigitte Bardot venga a tomar una copa esta noche, and in 2013, the anthology Libro de collages. First, we will observe that the heterogeneous objects stuck on the page testify of a material, of a past, and in some cases of a central figure o character. The collage is often chosen as a form for homage, in A. Lopez Gradoli's work. But the plurality of places (Marc Auge, lieu), mentioned on the page, constructs a new space which transforms and transcends the original places. The collage appears to be a non-space, a utopia or a heterotopia (M. Foucault). Its internal organization evokes the troubling defined by Freud. The collagist process is the vehicle of phantasms, which enable the emergence of a subjectivity. The page of the collage is converted into the space for a quest of the poetical voice. This is the second aspect we explore in this article. Beneath the heterogeneity of fragments, there is a unique voice, born with the interaction of objects (documents, pictures) and discourse. Some compositions of Libro de collages deals precisely with the artistic and poetic experience of the author. Moreover, the introduction of a subjective perception constitute the main question of the book Quiza Brigitte…, in spite of the fact that it is apparently dedicated to the interlocutory (the actress B. Bardot). The repetition determines the structural dynamic of the book and, consequently, the collage seems to cease the essence of the object. It forms the erotic discourse, close to fetishism, which leads to a will of appropriation and the foundation of a proper an unedited discourse, fed with its relation to the other. Moreover we will observe that the voice seems often fragile. On the collage, blank and empty spaces, aporia, constitute the paradoxical space, yet necessary to the voice. In the collage, there is contrary dynamic: chock of the multiple fragments for the construction of a unique voice, strangeness and recognition of the objects, identity and permanency of the subject. Resume : Depuis le milieu du XXeme siecle, le collage de papiers ou d'objets constitue une modalite de la poesie visuelle. A l'heterogeneite des fragments definitoire, du collage, la poesie experimentale ajoute celle des procedes et des arts en presence. Alfonso Lopez Gradoli est certainement le seul a avoir pratique le collage avec une telle constance. Il publie en 1971 le recueil Quiza Brigitte Bardot venga a tomar una copa esta noche, puis, en 2013, l'anthologie de collages Libro de collages. Premierement, nous observerons que les objets 2