The exhibition entitled Handbook to the Stars is the first presentation of Peter Puklus’ newest series. The photographs were taken in Banska Stiavnica (Sk), where Peter was artist in residence during the past three months at Banská Stanica Contemporary, an institution run by Zuzana Bodnárová (curator) and Svätopluk Mikyta (artist).
This project is the continuation of an artistic process defined by the series Budapest Eden, started in 2009. Dreamlike symbols, mock-ups, installations, readymades. This series is the photo-documentation of a sculpting experiment, resembling the form and light exercises of the 20-s avant-garde. Handbook to the Stars attempts to visualize the infinitely flexible and tricky associative capacity of our brain. Peter Puklus chooses not to leave his studio during the making of this series, but to commit himself with body and soul to his vision and observations, in the company of trash and bric-a-brac, in complete isolation of the outside world. Following inner voices, he reveals and gives proof to deep, unknown and invisible relations and conspiracies.
Peter Puklus is the member of the Lumen board.
The residency program and the exhibition was supported by the International Visegrad Fund.
