Antoni Malinowski trained as a painter, and works
both on canvas and on site-specific projects, where his creations
are inspired by their architectural context.. His paintings hover
on the edge of figuration and abstraction, but above all focus on
colour, the emotional precision of colour. In order to achieve this
aim, Malinowski makes his own paints and searches for the most
appropriate, often rare, pigments. Apart from the daily practice of
painting on canvas, Malinowski has -- for more than 20 years --
been doing an ephemeral installations in buildings. Taking as his
starting point the intersection of the natural light and
architecture, he has done many, mostly linear, wall drawings.
Malinowski sometimes collaborates with architects and creates
permanent painterly interventions in and on buildings. His most
well known work is the Vermilion Wall at the Royal Court Theatre,
Sloane Square -- a collaboration with Haworth Tompkins Architects .
Another work by this team is the colourful facade of the Coin
Street Neighbourhood Centre:
"here the whole facade became a light sensitive,
ever-changing interaction of colours; an architectural-scale
painting for the passers by."
Since the mid-1980s Malinowski has regularly
exhibited in London. In 1997 he had a major solo show at the Camden
Arts Centre. In 2002, during the unveiling of his wall painting at
the Luxor Theater, Rotterdam, Michael Nyman directed his musicians
to turn Malinowski's lines and dashes into sound. Later that year,
Malinowski made site-specific installation in the 18th-century
Members Room at the Architectural Association in London, and since
then continues to engage with the past in various historical
locations all over Europe, including the magnificent rooms of the
Palazzo Cicogna Mozzoni in Milan, where his line drawing was
interacting with the 18th-century ceiling fresco. There, like in
the previous, "Bridging Lines" project in Venice (2005), a dance
performance was developed by the choreographer Yong-Min Cho. The
lines of Malinowski's wall drawings triggered the movements of the
dancers -- and the 2 D lines unfolded into a 4 D experience. This
collaboration continues and a dance performance is going to be
developed for the opening of the Dulwich Picture Gallery
exhibition.
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