- Title: KWY #2
- Author: Lurdes Castro
René Bèrtholo - Publisher: KWY
- Dimensions: 17,5X30 cm 6,89X 11,81 in.
- Number of Pages: 4 pages (2 single sheets not numbered) + covers.
- Edition: 60 copies
- Publishing Date: 1958 (August)
- Place: Paris, France
- Dep. Legal / ISBN: n.a.
- Media: Silkscreen printed, several colours on brown paper. Collage in back-cover: - a silkscreen in black, red, and blue on white paper on the front; silkscreen in orange, blue, red, grey, and black on white paper on the back cover. Folded pages.
- Synopsis: Cover by René Bèrtholo. In the colophon a text elucidates that this edition contains “a poem by Hélder Macedo, a silkscreen by Jan Voss printed by the artist at the Munich Academy; the poem “ o mar profundo” from the Brazilian poetess Lucy Teixeira; silkscreen by Gonçalo Duarte”. The poems are illustrated by Castro and Bèrtholo. Jan Voss silkscreen is printed in black, red, and blue on white paper. In the last page a small silkscreen by Gonçalo Duarte printed in orange, blue, red, grey and black, 6,5X4,13 inches. Texts in Portuguese.
- Notes and Collections: KWY#2 is available at Gulbenkian Foundation Library in Lisbon; Serralves Foundation Library, Porto, Portugal. Kandinsky Library, Paris, France.
- Bibliography and Links:
AA.VV. – KWY. Lisboa, Fundação Gulbekian/KWY, 1960. (catálogo da exposição que teve lugar na Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes entre 11 a 20 de Dezembro de 1960)
ACCIAIUOLI, Margarida – KWY Paris 1958-1968. Lisboa, Centro Cultural de Belém / Assírio & Alvim, 2001
BARROSO, Eduardo Paz – Words and Painting Exchange Roles: Concrete Poetry, Experimental Poetry, & Fine Arts in Portugal. Journal of Artists’ Books #32. Outono, 2012. (Pág. 21-28)
BOIVENT, Marie – La revue d’artiste. Enjeux et spécificités d’une pratique artistique. Tese de Doutoramento, departamento de Artes Plásticas da Universidade Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne. Junho 2011. (páginas 97-99, 416, 684)