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Untitled (question marks, exclamation marks)

Stanisław Dróżdż
Title
Untitled (question marks, exclamation marks)
Dating
1973
Description

Using the semantic functions of punctuation marks such as brackets, question marks and exclamation marks within a sentence, Dróżdż constructed a structure in which a non-existent verbal text may be imagined. Only its emotional meaning is conveyed through punctuation. One may infer the course of a narrative interrupted by digressions, interrogations and emphatic confirmations. This is another metalinguistic work. A variant with the signs arranged in lines within a column has also been created, with increasingly dense spacing and a growing number of columns, as well as an eight-panel version in which the signs are arranged in a circle on each panel, and eight such circles form a larger circle. The principle of arrangement is based on mathematical combination. The work has been presented as handwriting in ink on Bristol board, letters cut from foil and mounted on a rigid support, and as digital prints on paper mounted on a rigid support.