A week ago, in Wroclaw’s National Art Museum, Stanislaw Drozdz’s solo exhibition opened. Although considered an artist by the critics and a poet by Drozdz himself, he also could be called an architect or – to be more precise – a 3-D poet. Among various pieces, on display there are 3 spaces, including my favourite ‘Miedzy’ which translates into ‘In-between’. ‘Miedzy’ is a rather small room where all surfaces – ceiling, floor and 4 walls – are upholstered with letters which are ingredients of the word ‘miedzy’ and which actually never form it, randomly distributed all over the room.
It was the second time when I entered this space (first time was almost 2 years ago in Warsaw) and the feeling again was overwhelming – one really feels in-between the architecture and the intelligence of the author. Can real architecture do the same? Is any architect in the real world able to create such a suggestive and subjective space? A claustrophobic, elegant and sterile space where sterility, elegance and claustrophoby are reinforced by graphics? A pure intensity? A breath-taking entity where it is rather mind that matters, not the atmosphere?
The other two spaces will I will show later.
