28 VI 1983

 BWA Gallery, Lublin

as part of the RECORD meeting (28-29 VI)

Description of the manifestation:

The audience sits on chairs along the gallery walls. In the center of the room stands a low table holding a container of paint, a brush, a bottle of vodka, and several vodka glasses. A little farther away is a taller, rectangular white pedestal. The artist enters naked, holding a newspaper titled Reality. He approaches the table, throws the newspaper onto the floor, and stands on it. Taking the brush, he dips it in white paint and, rotating, paints successive letters on his body, one above the other, forming the vertical word SZTUKA (ART). He then picks up the newspaper, folds it in various places, and shapes it into a figure resembling a bird. He approaches the pedestal and places the figure made from RZECZYWISTOŚĆ (REALITY) upon it. Returning to the table, he alternately pours vodka into the glasses and paints segments of a black line on his body. These segments form a black cross, painted so that the white inscription SZTUKA (ART) remains in the foreground while the black cross appears behind it. The artist then addresses the audience, saying: When reality becomes fiction, art is real but there is no room for it. He invites the audience to drink vodka.

Photo by Andrzej Polakowski, Zygmunt Rytka