inventory number: 442/7.1/2012/11
title: Photo documentation – the photoshoot in Jerzy Bereś' studio at Siemaszki street, Jerzy Bereś presents and activates his sculpture "Newspaper Puncher" (1968), photo by Jacek Szmuc, 120 negative, photo no. 11
date: ca 1972
type: silver gelatin negative monochromatic
size: 60.00 x 60.00
additional info: ORWO HR 4L, frame number: 13-14
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: A photo session in the studio at Siemaszki Street in Kraków, during which Jerzy Bereś launches the sculpture "Newspaper Puncher" (1968), with Jerzy Bereś and three young women, including Maria Socha (Potocka), taking part in the session. A pile of torn newspapers on the floor. Two women are standing behind the sculpture, the third is trampling on newspapers, Bereś is holding the lever of the "Newspaper Puncher". It is a participatory sculpture. It was purchased by the Milanese gallerist Arturo Schwarz in 1973. Schwarz planned to create the Museum of the Avant-Garde of Eastern Europe, but he did not carry out the plan. After many years, he sold his collection at auction. From that moment on, the fate of the sculpture is unknown.

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