11/06/2010 - 04/09/2010
STANISŁAW DRÓŻDŻ | CARL ANDRE | ROBERT BARRY
The exhibition at Gallery ŻAK | BRANICKA displays for the first time the work of Polish Concrete Poetry artist Stanisław Dróżdż, alongside the classic minimal and conceptual work of Carl Andre and Robert Barry.
This exhibition brings together Dróżdż’s most important original works from the 1960s – including Forgetting, Uncertainty-Hesitation-Certainty (1967), Duration (1968), Life-Death (1969), Loneliness (1967), Algebra of Prepositions (1987), Permutations (1989) – and one of his key numeric works Untitled (Numerical Texts). The slide projection from 1971 by Robert Barry, as well as the textual works of Carl Andre from the 60s and 70s, posits Dróżdż’s work in the greater context of art from that period. What the works of these artists connects is the analysis of words and their relation to space. These works are at the same time text and image existing at once on a flat layer and in space.
