inventory number: 442/1.2/117/38
title: Jerzy Bereś – "Life's Work" (black and white photo documentation of the artistic action, STU Theater Gallery, Kraków, 25.10.1977, taken by Jacek Szmuc), 135 negative, photo no. 38
date: 1977-10-25
type: silver gelatin negative monochromatic
size: 38.00 x 35.00
additional info: ORWO NP 27, frame number: 37-38
Digitized thanks to the funds from the “Digital Culture 2024” programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Digitized by the Museum of Photography in Krakow

description: Photographic documentation of Jerzy Bereś’s manifestation "Life’s Work" (25.10.1977), taken at the STU Theater Gallery in Kraków. The artist is naked. He is kneeling on the floor next to a tied tree stump. He is girding himself with a gray cloth with the words "life’s work" written on it. An axe lies next to him. Spectators are standing behind him: in the middle Witold Górka, first from the right Bogusław Rostworowski.

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