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Untitled (eight letters short of forty-nine…)

Stanisław Dróżdż
Title
Untitled (eight letters short of forty-nine…)
Dating
1978
Description

A work based on the principle of tautology and at the same time a charade to be solved: the eponymous sentence (in Polish) contains exactly forty-one letters, which indeed means that eight are missing to make forty-nine. The phrases written in the four lines below the title are constructed according to a similar rule; the empty space before the long line at the bottom of the board suggests that the viewer should discover the principle governing the construction of the sentence and attempt to continue the game. The work has been executed in the form of a computer printout.