An Unprinted Story
On 18 May 2012, during the opening of the new exhibitions and the Night at  the Museums, visitors made a mural – together with the artist Artur  Wabik – which showed a diagram of an imaginary printing press. The  artist’s design was inspired by the printing process. The white line  running across the wall represents a sheet of paper in the printing  press. The painters filled the diagram with their own ideas. The result  was CMYK at MOCAK – a work created in the basic colours used in the printing process: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.
In  the 1990s, on the site of today’s Museum of Contemporary Art (to be  precise, where the MOCAK Café now is) there used to be a polygraphic  printing works, run by Artur Wabik’s family. The artist’s first studio  was located next to the machine room. No wonder he admits to a very  personal attitude to the Museum, ‘It was in this very building that I  grew up – surrounded by printing presses.’
The story of Artur  Wabik demonstrates that the chasm which appears to separate the  historic, industrial Zabłocie from its contemporary guise is not as  great as one might think. It reveals something that could be called a  dynamic lack of self-awareness of the place. A dozen or so years back,  where there are now the galleries, in Building A young people would  spontaneously organise open-air art events. By inviting us to  participate in the collective painting of the mural, Artur Wabik wanted  to make a connection with those events. And show also, that a public  space can be a place of personal significance, of memories, of growing  up. The artist would like the ‘mural to become a homage to polygraphy, a  profession receding into the past.’
Do have a browse through the photos of the event!





