inventory number: 442/1.2/122/9
title: Jerzy Bereś – "Reflective Mass" (black and white photo documentation of the artistic action, Krzysztofory Gallery, Kraków, 23.05.1983, taken by Jacek Szmuc), 135 negative, photo no. 9
date: 1983-05-23
type: silver gelatin negative monochromatic
size: 38.00 x 35.00
additional info: KODAK Tri-X Pan (5063), frame number: 18A-19
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 "Reflective Mass" (23.05.1983), taken at the Krzysztofory Gallery in Krakow. The Krzysztofory basement, it’s dark. There’s a table against the wall, with a bottle and glasses on it. In the background you can see Bereś’s sculpture "Flower" (1981/82). in the middle of the floor there’s a newspaper. The naked artist is kneeling by it and painting the letter "z" next to the letter "s". You can see that it’s the popular weekly "Polityka". Around it, spectators are sitting on folding chairs, clockwise: Jerzy Hanusek, Bettina Bereś, Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Julian Jończyk, Marta Tarabuła, Janusz Tarabuła, Kazimierz Mikulski, Jonasz Stern, nn.

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