Peter Puklus

  • NEWS
  • BOOKS
  • INSTALLATION VIEWS
  • WORKSHOPS
  • CV & BIO
  • CONTACT

WORKS

  • The Hero Mother - How to build a house
  • The Epic Love Story of a Warrior
  • Handbook to the Stars
  • One and a half meter
  • Sculptures and objects

Handbook to the Stars

2009 – 2012

There is a reason why Peter Puklus’ first publication is called Handbook to the Stars, a subtle manifesto of his Ars Poetica. With this handbook he attempts to portray his own universe and provide insight into how his photographic works relate to each other: like galaxies in relative proximity to one another that are bound together by their own gravitational force. The images function alongside one another and through one another, have no sequence or chronology, but exist individually even as they form interconnections and follow their own patterns. Hence they do not necessarily fit on a page in this book; the imaginary distances keep the images in place. This implies that they may appear fragmented, sometimes small, sometimes large, precisely as they coexist in Puklus’ universe of images.

(Claudia Küssel)

Installation shots:
> Handbook to the Stars at Reframe Memory exhibition during Athens Photo Festival in Benaki Museum, Pireos St. Annex, Athens, Greece, 3 June – 31 July 2015
> Handbook to the Start in FOAM 3h, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13 September – 4 November 2013

Edition size: 300
Hardcover
16 x 21 cm
64 pages
13 color and 37 black-and-white images

Concept: Claudia Küssel and Peter Puklus
Text and selection: Claudia Küssel
Graphic design: Palo Bálik
Translation: Cecily Layzell

Published by: Stokovec, Space for Culture
Project Partner: Lumen Gallery
With the support of Visegrad Fund

ISBN: 978-80-89587-00-1

Signed and numbered
SOLD OUT

 

Scroll right and down to discover the concept.

Click here to see individual images.