Stanisław Dróżdż,
POCZĄTEKONIEC/BEGINNINGEND
Pojęciokształty/Concept-shapes. Concrete poetry. Works from 1967-2007
monograph exhibition

Exhibition opening: 21.12.2009, 6 p.m.
Exhibition runs through 11.04.2010
Curator: Elżbieta Łubowicz
Gallery 2

Stanislaw Dróżdż (1939-2009) is one of Poland’s most outstanding contemporary artists. For over forty years, he has created original and consistent works at the crossroads of poetry and visual art. The idea behind the exhibition is to show Dróżdż's work as a complete oeuvre, created in accordance with the same concept throughout his entire life.
The exhibition displays more than 40 works, beginning with the first concrete poetry works created in 1967 through the artist's last work in 2007. The exhibition presents works which treat language as their basic material and those based on digits and numbers, as well as works making use of object-signs. It includes large, technically complex concepts, such as the renowned Between and Alea iacta est, a piece consisting of approximately 250,000 dice, depicting all of the possible 46,656 layouts of 6 cubes, which represented Poland at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).
The exhibition's title, początekoniec (beginningend), is both the title and fragment of one of Stanisław Dróżdż's works. It points to the main source of his creativity - reflections on language and his fascination with the problem of space and time, the beginning and end of which elude us. The subtitles: Pojęciokształty. Poezja konkretna (Concept-Shapes. Concrete poetry) are expressions by which Dróżdż named almost all of its exhibitions, highlighting his faithful approach to the original term pojęciokształt (concept-shape) coined by the author in the second half of the 1960s and to concrete poetry - an avant-garde phenomenon in 20th century literature.
The exhibition also consists of a musical piece composed for one of Stanisław Dróżdż's works by Tadeusz Sudnik. The exhibition is accompanied by a monograph/album.

Co-organized by:
Wrocław Culture and Art Center
National Museum in Wrocław
Lower Silesian Art Festival

Media patrons: Gazeta Wyborcza, Aktivist, Exklusiv, Sztuka.pl, Artinfo.pl, Culture.pl, Arteon, Dobre Info, Obieg, Odra, TVP Wrocław, Format, Exit, Respublika Nowa