Giovanni Fontana (born 1946) is an Italian poet, performance artist, author and publisher.
[1][2] His visual compositions present themselves as real scores, as pre-texts through which to attain a performance dimension.
[1] His first visual poems are dated around the years of 1966–1968 and they develop parallel to sound experimentations on magnetic tape, which later were used in theatre (1968–1972).
Among his works are the score-text Radio/Dramma (1977), the visual poetry works Le lamie del labirinto (1981)[4] and L'uomo delle pulizie (1984), the collection of poetry Scritture lineari (1986), the poems La discarica fluente (1997), Frammenti d'ombre e penombre (2005), Questioni di scarti (2012), the monograph Testi e pre-testi (2010) and two novels: Tarocco Meccanico (1990) and Chorus (2000).
[2] With his visual poems he took part in many exhibitions in Europe, in the Americas, in Japan and Australia, giving performances and installations in thousands of festivals for new poetry and electronic art.