Dimensions: 22 x 20.5 cm (dimensions of each work)
Signed on the first board: 'SDróżdż'
Origin
artist's studio
Muzalewska Gallery, Poznan
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Stanislaw Drozdz: why-why-pourquoi-warum, Foksal Gallery PSP, Warsaw, January 29-February 1975.
Stanislaw Drozdz: Muzalewska Gallery, Poznan, 10-11.2019
Literature
Stanislaw Dróżdż: why-why-pourquoi-warum, cat. exhib. Foksal Gallery PSP, Warsaw, February 1975 (available online, Anka Ptaszkowska archive, photo no. 3484-3509, https://artmuseum.pl/pl/archiwum/archiwum-anki-ptaszkowskiej/2489/123615)
Andrzej Przywara, Stanisław Dróżdż. Pojęciokształty. Concrete Poetry 1967-2003, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw 2014, pp. 102, 263-289 (ill.).
Biography
He is one of the most prominent representatives of concrete poetry. Graduate of Polish philology at the University of Wroclaw, where he studied in 1959-64. In 1964 he made his debut as a poet with traditional poems in "Ark. Informator Klubu Młodzieży Artystycznej ZSP", and in 1967 he began writing his first concrete texts. His works have been presented in exhibitions at home and abroad since 1968. In 1979 he compiled and published the book Concrete Poetry. A selection of Polish texts and documentation from 1967-77.