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The project 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. (Gergely László)

Peter Puklus is an example of a modern documentary author. Questions of an involved or not involved view, an approach based on revealing beauty, or rather importance of daily, even banal things - all that was solved before.

The generation of Puklus can now focus on the complexity of documentary work. Everything around can be a subject. The Intimacy series contains several chapters systematically researching different aspects of this topic - a man as a source of the intimacy feeling, an inhabited interior, still-lives as traces of living.

However, this almost scientific approach does not stop here. A single picture or one medium is not enough. Some photographs were made on the basis of drawings and are accompanied by videos. The whole series gains even deeper insight in the topic and literally one more dimension. (Zuzana Lapitková)