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United Kingdom
Printmaking, Screenprinting on Canvas
Size: 65 W x 69.7 H x 1.6 D in
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The Temple of Divine Providence, under construction in southern Warsaw's Wilanów district, will be one the most important Roman Catholic buildings in Poland. The story of its construction began over 200 years ago. Since then, due to historic circumstances, Poles had been unable to complete a votive church to Divine Providence. The image shown is of the proposed design from Poland’s Second Republic. The Committee in charge of this build chose a proposal by architect Bohdan Pniewski for a building of the constructivist style with a tower that would resemble the skyscrapers in New York. Unfortunately, the date to begin the construction was constantly postponed. Finally, it was settled in 1939, the year of the invasion of Poland by Germany followed by the Soviet Union. In November 2002 this building was started with a design similar to this original, it is still under construction. Within Svetlana Boym’s novel The Future of Nostalgia she outlines two different tendencies of nostalgia that one can experience: restorative and reflective nostalgia. She explains the dangers of restorative nostalgia which characterizes national and nationalist revivals all over the world, which engage in myth-making of history by means of a return to national symbols and myths. Restorative nostalgia manifests itself in the total reconstruction of monuments of the past. I find it interesting that a country which was unable to produce this building due to the Communist regime after WW2 would go back to this original Constructivist form, burdened with socialist ideology after ridding itself of Communism. The form of the building and the purpose are in direct conflict with each other, yet both the form and the use are still firmly rooted within the ideology of restorative nostalgia. I find both the look and the name of this building leave the viewer with particularly uneasy feelings.
Printmaking:Screenprinting on Canvas
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1
Size:65 W x 69.7 H x 1.6 D in
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I think that painting is important. I see it as being intrinsically linked to cultural memory and an ideal medium to link the past to the present. The memorial presence of the past takes many forms and serves many purposes, ranging from nostalgic longing for what is lost to polemical use of the past to reshape the present. The paintings I make deal with both of these aspects, and serve as a longing and a warning as well as an active means or reshaping the past. Cultural recall and nostalgia is not merely something of which you happen to be a bearer but something that you actually perform, even if, in many instances, such acts are not conscious or wilful. I have a Masters in Fine from Glasgow School of Art which I graduated from in 2012. I currently live and work in Glasgow.
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