Antoni Malinowski (b.1955,Warsaw) works with pigment, light, movement and time, investigating the dynamic relationship that exists between pictorial and architectural spaces. After studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and furthering his studies at the Chelsea Collage of Art, Malinowski has established and based his practice in London. Since his first wall drawing installations in the mid 1980s Antoni Malinowski has been working in a variety of media including painting on canvas and walls, video, and drawing on often very large scale. Malinowski has done many painting/drawing installations including “ Placed/Displaced” at Chisenhale Gallery, London 1986; “Present Continuous” at Bath International Art Festival 1991; “Brit Art” at Kuenstlerhaus Glarus 1992; “ Vor Ort “ Langenhagen 1993; “ Mapping “ St Pancrass Station, London 1993, “Wall Drawing for RIBA”, London 1998; “Echoing the Pavilion” at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea and the Architectural Association, London 2001; “Bridging Lines Venice” during the Architectual Venice Bienalle 2004, “Bridging Lines Milan” at Studio Giangaelazzo Visconti and Assab One, Milan 2005, “Bridging Colours” at and around Gallery 175, Seoul 2010. In 2009 Antoni Malinowski has become the first contemporary artist in the 200 year history of Dulwich Picture Gallery to make a drawing/ painting installation directly on the walls of this oldest museum in England (The Polish Connection – Dulwich Picture Gallery,London and the Royal Castle, Warsaw 2009 ) Malinowki’s paintings have been exhibited internationally and are in many private and public collections including Tate, London.
Following his major solo exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre, London in 1997 Antoni Malinowski spent several months as an Abbey Scholar at the British Shool at Rome researching the ancient Roman wall paintings. This triggered many collaborations with architects on permanent interventions in architecture. They range from engineering colour for facades to complex wall paintings and include Vermilion Wall painting spanning three floors at the Royal Court Theatre(2000), London and the façade and interior spaces of the Coin Street Community Centre(2007), London , both collaborations with Haworth Tompkins Architects; wall painting at the Luxor Theatre (2002), Rotterdam , collaboration with Bolles+Wilson Architects; Venetian glass mosaic( 2010)for the elevation on Maddox Street, London, collaboration with Eric Parry Architects.
In 2002 Antoni Malinowski has established Materiality of Colour course at the Architectural Association, London where he has been researching with his students the dynamics of colour/space interactions.
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