The films present districts of tower blocks erected in the previous century which take up ninety per cent of the city area. The artist recorded opinions of random people that he came across in the vicinity of their homes. The project is going to include four films, each of which will refer to another part of Cracow.
Przewodnik po Krakowie/Cracow Guide is a video film showing all huge districts in the north, east and south of Cracow. People who live their talk about them. Asked whether they like their district, almost everyone replied that it is beautiful. However, nearly everybody emphasized the fact that they don’t feel secure there. Only one person claimed that he wanted to move out immediately. It must be said, though, that he was building a house in the countryside at that time, which means that he had means to achieve his dream. My intention was to present the parts of Cracow that are unknown and exotic to people who don’t live in this city.
The viewer, on seeing all the post-war districts grouped together, must conclude that Cracow is an ugly location. Which is shocking, bearing in mind that this is not the way in which Cracow is usually perceived. The tourists hardly ever go beyond the small medieval, or the slightly bigger nineteenth-century centre.
The film is an assemblage; this structure, consisting in rhythmical, schematic repetition of the images of different districts creates the desired, slightly terrifying, slightly comical, effect.
Łukasz Skąpski, Seria i typologia jako metoda w sztuce, PhD dissertation, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, 2005
Exhibitions
2006 “Łukasz Skąpski. Recent Video Works,” Location One, New York, USA
2006 Lukasz Skapski, „Grey Area”, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
Bibliography
Łukasz Skąpski, Seria i typologia jako metoda w sztuce, PhD dissertation, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, 2005
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