ROOM 14

Vicente Huidobro's unfinished masterpiece of painted poems, the final stage of his journey of exploration of the calligram that he began in Chile with the Summer Japponeries in Santiago in 1912.
The paintings and collages were exhibited at the Edward VII Theatre in Paris in 1922, and an album of pochoir reproductions was promised in the exhibition catalogue. This never eventuated, and many of the painting were lost. There have been a number of partial reconstructions from notes and photographs since the magazine Poemas began investigating them in the 1980s. This imagined edition featured Englished versions of the extant paintings, with colours restored to the original. It also features a reconstruction from notes of Huidobro's lost Eiffel Tower, and proposes thre solutions in homage to the tree lost Rainbow poems. A bonus is the passengers ticket "Tourist Advisory" from Huidobro's Manifesto