die deutsche reihe n. II
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- die deutsche reihe n. II
- 1973
- 6 sheets, stamp and pencil on paper
- 21 × 20,1 cm
At the end of the 1960s, Milan Adamčiak rendered some of his experimental poetry using a children’s letter stamp set. Alongside the typewriter, potato-carved stamps provided another way of non-traditional DIY typographical text reformatting. In the “Typoemy” cycle, from the words typo and poem, when stamping he also made use of various geometric shape templates (a circle segment, semicircle, or rhombus). The letters were put together such that they accentuated the content, for example the falling letters of the word Angelo, referencing a fallen angel. In 1973 he made 5 cycles of prepositions using a rhombus template. This produced stamped-out poetry of multi-layered stamp imprints of the same letter on paper, in a space enclosed by the template. We find cycles of Slovak prepositions of one letter (Z, U, V, S, O, K) and two (ZA, PO, SO, NA, OD, KU), and a cycle of prepositions of three letters in German (MIT, AUF, BEI, PRO, VOR, ZUM), two letters in English (ON, OF, UP, BY, AT, IN), and two letters in Italian (DI, SU, DA, AI, IN, AL). These stamp prints are on the one hand typographic works and experimental poetry and prints, but on the other they are directions/musical scores for performative acoustic interpretation, where the position of letters and intensity of print color can instruct the interpreter’s movement and the intensity of his vocal expression. M.Mu.