Office of the Poetry and Galeria PRO/LA (1-2/2)
The Poetry Office was established by the artist Andrzej Partum in 1971 as a single-person, independent centre involved with recording creative facts, situated in the attic at 38 Poznańska Street in Warsaw. The Partum’s Poetry Office, which served the role of an author’s gallery, a place of presentations and meetings, was functioning within the network of artists creating the mail art, giving rise to this form of artistic activity in Poland. It received piles of correspondence from all over the world, from artists who conducted a free exchange of thoughts within international mail systems. Over the years the Partum’s Poetry Office gathered approximately three thousand files of artists from around the world, signed with their names, which included the files of such artists as Andy Warhol, Dick Higgins, Robert Filliou, John Cage, Stanisław Dróżdż, KwieKulik, Jerzy Bereś and others. In 1978 the Poetry Office was transformed into the Pro/La Gallery which conducted its activity until 1984 in Warsaw at Podchorążych Street.
