White black, around 1970

The concept-shapes are substantive-formal, self-analyzing codifiers of reality which integrate science and art, poetry and fine arts,' explained Stanislaw Drozdz when he talked about his works. He began to create the ‘concept-shapes’ in 1967. He remained faithful to his artistic vision for over 40 years. His creations function in the realm of fine arts, as conceptualist works. The author, however, thought of himself as a poet, practicing concrete poetry, a style which appeared in the West in 1956. In concrete poetry, poems are visual compositions made of letters and typographic signs which are not subject to any semantic or syntactic relations. Drozdz said that '[...] concrete poetry consists in isolating and autonomizing the word' from the context of language and the non-linguistic reality so that it only has a meaning in and of itself. The form is determined by the content here, and vice versa. While traditional poetry describes an image, concrete poetry writes with an image' (Ewa Gorzadek, Stanislaw Drozdz, culture.pl, December 2004/ November 2009).

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