Attention!
Before you unreel the roll, read the following text!
‘What did you say you were?’ asked Annika. ‘A turnupstuffer’. ‘What’s that?’ asked Tommy. ‘Somebody who finds the stuff that turns up if only you look, of course. What else would it be?’ said Pippi, sweeping together all the flour on the floor into a little pile. ‘The whole world is filled with things that are just waiting for someone to come along and find them and that’s just what a turnupstuffer does’. ‘What sort of things?’ asked Annika. ‘Oh, all sorts’, said Pippi. ‘Gold nuggets and ostrich feathers and dead mice and rubber bands and tiny little grouse’.
Go back to where the exhibition starts, right next to the Gallery’s large staircase. Sit
comfortably, put the map on the floor. Hmmm… Is this the map of the same exhibition you’ve seen through the telescope?
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Enter the exhibition and walk around as slowly as you can, see it without putting your eye away from the telescope.
Did you succeed? Unroll the guide… Look what kind of SEARCH map we have prepared for you.
The Search A guide for children. Concept: Karolina Vyšata Design: Agnieszka Janik Proofreading: Joanna Myśliwiec Translation: Karolina Kolenda
Easy, there’s no hurry – we need a plan and good knowledge of the area… You are holding in your hands a guide for the exhibition Minimal Forms of Reality – don’t unroll it. It’s a telescope!
The guide was published on the occasion of the exhibition titled Minimal Forms of Reality Curator: Lidia Krawczyk Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art July 5 – September 6, 2015
SEARCH!
Minimal Forms of Reality subsidised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
What do you like to look for? What would you like to find in Bunkier Sztuki? Let’s go for a
The guide is available under the Creative Commons licence: Recognition of Copyright – under the same terms 3.0. Poland https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/
A. Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking, trans. Edna Hurup, Oxford 1954, p. 15
What does the exhibition look like through the “eye” of the telescope? What did you find particularly interesting? What did you find? Let’s try to see the exhibition again. This time, we shall use the map…
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SEARCH…
This is the end of our
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The SEARCH requires you to be alert and attentive.
but, but… what have we actually found? And what does this strange exhibition title actually mean – Minimal Forms of Reality?
Sometimes you make one wrong step and all your efforts come to nothing. Don’t be misled by appearances and illusions. Eyes wide open!
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In the first part of the exhibition find:
Our SEARCH is an adventure full of surprises.
– a “false” board
that was not made of wood – a mirror that is not made of glass – a dream that floats above the floor
What is a surprise? Are surprises always nice? What kind of emotions do they evoke?
– an empty can
with a tree “growing” from it
– a mountain made of hats
– glasses
We move our search to our home. Unroll the map again. Once
again, move to Bunkier Sztuki and mark the route that you have made during your SEARCH. Recall what you’ve seen and mark your findings and discoveries. What was the biggest treasure you’ve found? Now is the time to look for small treasures all around you. Perhaps you could make a collection or an exhibition from them?
Slowly move to the second part of the exhibition. Which work matches the feelings that you associate with a surprise? Perhaps you just found a talisman that changes all unpleasant surprises into pleasant adventures? Look for other emotions in the exhibition as well. Find: joy, shyness, sadness, courage, and enchantment. Tell a story of the art works we’ve found. Why do you associate them with these feelings? You don’t have to use words to reply. You may make a gesture towards this art work or create a symbol for the represented emotion.
that nobody looks through anymore
– railing
supported by a carpet.
From all the objects you found choose one that interested you the most. Inspect the material it was made from and the surroundings in which it was placed. Try to listen to it and say something to it – this is also the way to “familiarize yourself” with art works. Perhaps, then the object you found will stop pretending and lying to you and finally show what it really is and reveal something important to you. What do you see now?