Lecture date: 2001-10-12
To accompany the exhibition of his installation at the AA, London-based artist Antoni Malinowski discusses the coexistence of painting and architecture in his work. Malinowski sees painting as an investigation of space in which 4D reality is transcribed onto 2D surface. This compression of dimensions opens up a new, pictorial space, and the combination of the different spatial aspects of painting and architecture can result in resonating overtones. Trained as a painter, Malinowski 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 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 – the materiality of colour at base level.
Apart from the daily practice of painting on canvas, Malinowski has made many ephemeral installations and other more permanent painterly interventions in buildings, such as the Vermilion Wall at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square – a collaboration with Haworth Tompkins Architects. A short film of this project is shown during this lecture.
