inventory number: 442/7.1/2010/4
title: Photo documentation – the photoshoot in Jerzy Bereś's studio at Siemaszki Street in Kraków, Jerzy Bereś, accompanied by three young women, activates his sculpture "God's Hand" (1972), photo by Jacek Szmuc, 120 negative, photo no. 4
date: ca 1972
type: silver gelatin negative monochromatic
size: 60.00 x 60.00
additional info: ORWO HR 4L, frame number: 1
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: Photo session in Jerzy Bereś’s studio at Siemaszki Street in Kraków, during which Jerzy Bereś launches the sculptures "God’s Hand" (1972), Jerzy Bereś and three young women, including Maria Socha (Potocka), participate in the session. They are by the sculpture, which is set in motion (pendulum). The women are passing one by one under the wooden hand (moving element of the sculpture), Jerzy Bereś is standing in front. On the left side you can see "Rotunda with a Bell" (1962) by Maria Pinińska-Bereś and "Altar of Fire" (1973) by Bereś, on the right side his sculpture "Entertainment Mill" (1969/70). "God’s Hand" 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 realize 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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