Enterro: From the Flan series

Antonio Manuel began working with journals in 1966, highlighting or erasing with oil stick specific information and images from the pages. He was particularly interested in the manipulation of the linguistic relation between headings and images. The flans (1967-1968) appeared during the reign of a particularly repressive government, and made explicit reference to the political moment of the times. They were created from used news plates recuperated from the major journals in Brazil including O Globo and Journal da Bahia. Many of the flans were censured and confiscated by the police resulting in the destruction of an extensive body of work.