Concrete Suite PHOTOGRAPHY

The project presented here is a fun evolution of Concrete Poetry, an art development combining form and text, geometry, and poetry on a written page, where the typographical effect is as or more important in conveying meaning than the verbal significance. This combination of signs and the geometries they create when assembled is as old as Ancient Greece, passing through classical times, the avant-guards of the XXthe century (Apollinaire, the surrealists, Futurists, DADA...) to the minimal artists of the 50s and 60s.

Eugen Gomringer, often called father of concrete poetry, considered that a poem should be “a reality in itself” rather than a statement about reality, and “as easily understood as signs in airports and traffic signs”.

By turning words into colored matter (3-dimensional glass letters) this autonomy of the poem is even more poignant, going a step further into this tradition of patterned writing experimenting in here with the idea of making 3 dimensional concrete poetry.

Color references the meaning of the word, and the feelings color inherently has. The text thus becomes the palette of the artist.

PROCESS is very important for me. The work really. This photographic body of work that spans the years making the CONCRETE SUITE series has become, unnintentionally, maybe bigger than the glass work itself. A total separate entitity, speaking to concrete poets and semiotics students with a poetic strike.

Words as matter here... The poetic and plastic qualities of this language in desorder speaks to our technological age, where images are taking over verbal communication. I won´t develop this further, but I think these images are saying something about the present times. And I´d love to think Marshall Mc Luhan would love these very much.