, through Nov. 30.
Malinowska says they staged the opera, “Halka,” in Haiti to refer to a little-known connection between the two countries. The
film investigates “the unusual, unexpected and sometimes bizarre ways in which people interpret their histories and construct their identities,” Malinowska says.
Here she shares her thoughts on culture in art practice and her approach to teaching.
“Halka/Haiti 18°48’05”N 72°23’01”W” was displayed at the Venice Biennale in an immersive panoramic format. What were your initial ideas for the performance and film, and its staging and location?
Malinowska: In this and many other conversations about “Halka/Haiti 18°48’05”N 72°23’01”W,” I mention Werner Herzog’s film “Fitzcarraldo” [which follows an Irish rubber baron who dreams of building an opera house in the Peruvian Amazon] as one of the conceptual “ingredients” behind the project and something that provoked us to embark on the mission of p
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The National Museum in Warsaw, which has more than 800,000 artworks in its collection, is just one of Poland’s many important museums. It’s also one of the places where these five paintings can be found.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
Meeting with the Village Mayor (1873)
While the Barbizon school of painters in France were propounding their theories on realism in art from around 1830 to 1870, there was a similar trend for realism in Poland. One of the leading figures in Polish Realist art was Józef Chełmoński, whose paintings are unerringly convincing. Although the artist traveled to Paris in 1875, where his work was received with enthusiasm, he never lost the distinctly Polish quality to his paintings. He trained in Warsaw under Wojciech Gerson, who taught many of the masters of 19th-century Polish art an
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