Franz Mon: Traces of Articulations
This exhibition-homage, whose title refers to Mon’s debut volume, includes examples of experimental poetry, collages, and radio plays
Franz Mon (born in 1926 in Frankfurt am Main) is one of the pioneers of experimental literature and art breaking new ground in the mid-twentieth century. His poetic work started in the wake of the spirit that pervaded all the arts in the 1950s and shattered the boundaries of genres. The period saw progressive, inter-disciplinary and cross-media art forms establish a new esthetic of unconventional means of expression: poetic, typographic, visual and auditory.
Fittingly for concrete poetry, he also considered the question of how few written characters (fragments) are needed to create some kind of text. For this purpose, anything that resembles a character is good. His raw material consistently includes the daily language of printed mass media.
