Summary
Vlado Martek: Postpoems
Poetry collection Postpoems. Artist's book. Samizdat no. 6. Xerox, cover: screen printing. It contains three papers.
Martek coined the terms pre-poet and pre-poetry for himself and his work, which became established as a definition of his artistic practice. His creativity includes actions, exhibitions-actions in cooperation and communication with the public, on the streets and in public spaces. He creates works and anti-works, agitations, assemblages, texts-diagrams written and drawn by hand. The fundamental feature of his work is the transmedia connection of language and fine arts in drawings, photographs, objects, paintings, actions, performances and installations. By the casualness of constant movement and changes, Martek's work reveals the influence of Fluxus, which he further builds on with the influences of historical avant-gardes, Duchamp and concrete poetry. Martek remained active in his home field of philosophy and literature and published a number of artists' books, samizdat and text books, which he considers a kind of social activism. In addition to writing in the traditional sense, Martek also creates poetic objects, in which he connects the media of literature, philosophy and fine arts.
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