Agulha Revista de Cultura: 20 ANOS O MUNDO CONOSCO

• R. LEONTINO FILHO | Gerundiando a liberdade: vinte anos da Agulha Revista de Cultura

O meu pavor é a viagem concluída, a coisa acabada…

Aníbal Machado

A poesia como totalidade da vida, ângulo quebradiço dos afetos, destino do ser em multiplicidade de máscaras. A poesia como fragmento do belo, pedaços de viagens por vir, desembarque de vozes outras. A poesia como explosão do delírio, alegoria impetuosa do espírito, voracidade absurda do verbo.

No jogo d’Eu, todos os tempos da poesia conjugam o humaníssimo sonho de fundar, no real, o transe permanente da arte, metáfora de luz e revolução. No calendário da vida, o que interessa é o campo aberto do espírito, a comunhão dos contrários, o banquete coletivo e maravilhoso oferecido a cada número, ao longo de vinte anos, pela Agulha Revista de Cultura, um verdadeiro triunfo da beleza.

A Agulha capitaneada por Floriano Martins, poeta de magnitude estelar, artista irrequieto e de feérica devoção à Arte, entrelaça, edição a edição, os universos mais distintos e libertários. É, sem meias palavras, e sem favor algum, a mais completa tradução da Poesia do nosso tempo. Espaço refinado pelas vozes amplíssimas que se escondem no claustro do passado e que, de maneira lúcida e necessária, vão sabiamente ocupando linha a linha, sem rodeios e sem mentiras, o terreno sólido da arte em toda sua plenitude. A Agulha, dessa forma e com tal postura, sinaliza para outras eras, com infinitas metáforas recheadas pela exuberância da existência.

Floriano Martins e a Agulha Revista de Cultura em perfeita sinonímia, 20 anos decorridos, apontam para a escrita de um tempo novo, onde três formas, entre tantas, de se viver são imprescindíveis: a repartição do sonho, a completude da liberdade e a conquista da poesia. Só assim, pode-se pretender um lugar nesse conturbado e abismático alvorejar do verbo que se quer carne.

Ressalte-se, por fim, que ler e acompanhar a Agulha Revista de Cultura é ir ao encontro das palavras do próprio Floriano Martins, quando, em um de seus poemas registra: Toda escrita é um fosso de navalhas dispostas a talhar a consciência de quem lhe visite. Sejamos livres, plenos, de consciência libertária, visitemos a Agulha, cientes de que o universo é uma profunda caverna a ser constantemente explorada.

Vida longa para a Agulha Revista de Cultura e o melhor da Vida para Floriano Martins, sempre.

• JAN DOČEKAL | Agulha Revista de Cultura, all the power of imagination

In November 1999, when the first issue of Agulha Revista de Cultura appeared, I knew nothing about this magazine. It was only in 2016 that I received a link from my Costa Rican surrealist friend Alfonso Peňa to the current number. Since then I have seen the magazine regularly. Muhu open even older editions. It is broadly based, varied, professional. I admire the enthusiasm, deep passion, quality of work, helpfulness and friendship of the editor Floriano Martins. He’s a rare man. The creative spirit in front of which it is necessary to squeeze the hat. We do not have a similar magazine in the Czech Republic.

I see coherence, friendship and enjoyment with authors from countries with Spanish and Portuguese languages. I have great respect for creative people. I enthusiastically accept their coherence in the spirit of surrealist traditions. My friend Floriano Martins is an unrivaled pattern of hard work for me. The source is love of art and total freedom of expression. This is certainly the current manifestation of a lasting surrealistic spiritual revolution. He continues with his supporters and outstanding artists in the visual and verbal field.

He was born in the Czech Republic, for more than 80 years, an outstanding surrealist poet and author of collages Arnošt Budík. He has already lived in Belgium, Brussels. He lives abroad but still has a living Czech language, exhibits in the Czech Republic. He is an active member of the Czech surrealist group Stir up. We chat. It is a model for me from the original Czech environment. Agulha Revista de Cultura knows his name well.

Today’s world is still divided. There is an ideological and economic rivalry. Artists in the Czech Republic are mostly individualists. But the surrealist group Stir up with Václav Pajurek and Arnošt Budík is open to Western European, Central American, and South American surrealists. Their works are on exhibitions at the Stir Up Gallery in a former mill on the Jihlava River. The curator of the exhibitions is Lubomír Kerndl. I am pleased that this has already been read in Agulha Revista de Cultura. It’s a beautiful, wise, surrealistically timeless magazine. I thank Florian Martins for his great work. I wish many other beautiful editions. I am very pleased to have occasion to write information about Agulha Revista de Cultura in Czech Magazine Literární noviny. I cordially greet all the authors of the magazine.

I am an old man and I no longer have great expectations of the unknown joys of life. There is work above all. And the firm vault above it is an ancient surreal motto: ALL THE POWER OF IMAGINATION.

• JOHN WELSON | Agulha Revisita de Cultura – 20 Years

The presence of an energy, organic, fruiting. The presence of a fruiting energy, its pulse an ever open eye.

Initially an idea, a concept, a possibility. A concept becomes an idea, thoughts and intentions coalesce through vision and intent. The birth of Agulha Revista de Cultura, a compass for the imagination, a map of shared imaginings.

Twenty years of adventure. The thrill of the possible made possible. The leaves of imagination caught in the wind, recorded, celebrated, echoes caught as brilliant crystals of sunlight, sunned enlightenment.

With each arrival of a new Agulha Revista de Cultura a revelation, a journey to new vistas, lovingly, respectfully reveal the majestic footsteps of others journeys. Through the years I have absorbed, accompanied, traversed the terrain of the imagination. With each edition wonderment, as I engross myself in text and image, old friends celebrated, new friends revealed.

Through twenty years a constant flow and impetus of energy, finger upon the pulse of the revelation of the multifarious trajectories of the realization of the imagination. Each edition a different perspective, insight from the ever open eye, an eye clear of obfuscation, delving deep below the surface.

And to the future, Agulha Revista de Cultura will realize more treasures of convulsive beauty, no time or thought to shadows taking root around events, events blossom in the organic presence which is Surrealism.