THE TRUE STORY:
Nobody has to know (how/like it really was)
episode4 of SAT
The museum of fragments and episodes presents artefacts of the real and/or imaginary life of Frank Gerlitzki: fragments of a curriculum, a manipulated biography completed by complete strangers.
A generation of thoughts, signs, objects- a reflection about reality, imagination, manipulation...
After his move to China, Frank Gerlitzki began a reflection of his life. Discovering old documents, thoughts written down, signs, pictures, objects and artefacts, he wasn't able to situate in time anymore, unable to connect them with the related details such as names, anecdotes and episodes. This made him doubt about the true reality of some of these fragments and memories.
Nothing was fixed, everything was in movement-he was unable to document his own precise reality. So he decided to let his resume free, let his biography flow, let it generate itself.
Pushing this development to its extreme, he abandoned its control and left its faith to the hands of complete strangers: his public, who were asked to participate to complete the museum's collection. Finally the "Frank Gerlitzki Museum" tells us more about ourselves and the public than about the artist.
As in all serious museum, guided tours are offered, an eminent foreign specialist of the artist's life gives detailed informations about the exhibition - a simultaneous translation gives it even more importance.
The true story was first shown in 4-sided museum, Guangzhou.
It was composed by 5 parts:
VID(very important documents)
A comic strip, completed by exhibition visitors
A giant painting, representing different moments of my biographie done by 50 people who didn't know me
A guided tour by a foreign specialist
and a collection of objects I got from people in the neighbour village (as exchange I invited the donators to the exhibition opening) performance-video
一个真实的故事
你并不需要知道这个故事的详情。
这个碎片和断面的博物馆，展示着Frank Gerlitzki在现实与想象生活中留下的种种物件，这些生命旅途的残片犹如由陌生人完成的传记。系列化的想法、标记、物件，构成了对现实、幻想与窜改的观照。
搬到中国后，Frank Gerlitzki便开始反观自己的生活。他发现许多过去的记录、曾经写下的思考、标记、图片以及物什，却已无法在时间线索中找到其位置，不能将它们与诸如名字、事件和生活插曲等相应的细节相勾连。这使他对这些记忆碎片的真实性萌生了疑问。
由于一切都处于变动不定中，他甚至无法纪录自己的确切现实。于是他决定撇开自己的简历，让其传记不受拘束，自由完形。把这个发展推至极端，他放弃了自己的控制，将其交给完全陌生的人、艺术学生、美术馆里的观众，并邀请他们一起完成该博物馆的收藏。最终，Frank Gerlitzki博物馆向我们讲述我们自己以及公众比讲述艺术家本人要多得多。
和所有严肃的博物馆一样，这里也提供解说服务。一位该艺术家生平的杰出专家将为您解读本次展览的每一个细节，并同时通过转译使其更显重要。