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This exhibition dealt with concrete poems installed in public places. There are also critical texts about concrete poetry by Gomringer and Valoch in the catalogue. Peter Daniel lists his work in exhibition in the Sackner Archive's "Hebrew Concrete Poetry" in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ivan Kubicek contributes an essay titled "Poems For Looking At And Pictures For Reading." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Kinetic letter picture by Timm Ulrichs which is reproduced is falsely attributed to Hansjorg Mayer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ovcacek was one of the founding members of the Czech movements of concrete poetry and Lettrisme in the 1960's, and was an initiator of "Lettristic Photography." His work was inspired by letters, pictogrammes, symbols of zoomorphy and anthropomorphy, ideograms and the human figure. He used letter symbols as a medium of artistic and semantic meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Jan Kriz wrote the text for this catalogue and Richard Drury provided an English summary. Between 1957 and 1963 Ovcacek studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia) under professor Peter Matejka. He also studied at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague under professor Antoni­n Kybal (1962). Already at that time he was strongly involved in graphic art and started to use it in order to express his own artistic potential. Together with MiloÅ¡ Urbasek, friend and fellow artist, Ovcacek founded, in 1960, an independent group of artists called "Konfrontace". This artistic group explored and dealt with informel, one of the then attractive form of abstract art. From the beginning of 1960's, Ovcacek kept close contacts with Polish artists, those contacts continued even after the occupation of the Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw pact forces in 1968. He established very friendly relations especially with Marian Bogusz, the principal protagonist of Polish...

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A Hartmann contibuted an essay in Czech on the verso of the print that depicts a letter picture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.