Stanisław Dróżdż

Stanisław Dróżdż (born May 15, 1939 in Sławków ; † March 29, 2009 in Breslau ) was a Polish poet ( concrete poetry ).

Dróżdż studied Polish Philology at the University of Wroclaw from 1959 to 1964 . During this time and afterwards he published traditional poems in the Arca magazine and received several prizes for them, including the Crystal Lion, at the fourth Poet Spring in Kłodzko. In 1967 he turned to concrete poetry, in which words and signs are no longer (only) understood as carriers of meaning, but become elements of images. He referred to these as pojęciokształty (conceptual shapes ) and in 1968 presented the basic ideas and principles of his works in the text of the same name in the magazine Odra .

From 1971 he worked with the Warsaw gallery Foksal , where most of his works were shown for the first time. From 1975 he was a member of the Polish Association of Plastic Artists. He became an important inspirer and promoter of the concrete poetry movement in Poland, organized exhibitions, presented works by Václav Havel , Ian Hamilton Finlay and others and in 1978 published a textbook on Polish concrete poetry ( Poezja Konetna. Wybór tekstów polskich oraz dokumentacja z lat 1967-1977 ).

He participated in more than 300 solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad and represented Poland in many international presentations on concrete poetry, modern and conceptual art , for example with as sound text -? concrete poetry - visual texts at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1970–1972), with Beyond Geometry, Experiments in Form, 1940s – 1970s at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2004) and at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). In 2002 he received the Nowosielski Foundation Prize for his creative and visionary combination of visual arts and poetry.

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SURNAME	Dróżdż, Stanisław
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish lyric poet of concrete poetry
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sławków
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 2009
Place of death	Wroclaw