Mateusz Maliborski

Born in 1990 in Kolbuszowa, Poland.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of painting in Kraków, completing his dissertation work under professor Adam Wsiołkowski (2015).

The first paintings entitled “Museum” were made in 2014 and inspired by the interiors of the Vienna museums where tradition mixes with modernity giving the exhibited works a completely different context. The distinctness of those spaces and how the works and people functioned there has in time become a subject/pretext for further pursuits, both formal and ideological. With each work, the meaning of the man on the painting, the painting inside the painting, the light on the painting and the architecture itself evolved. Initially, the works presented the museum as the so-called white cube treated in a literal, architectonic way, with defined sources of light, white walls and straight angles, centrally placed, undefined and unspecified paintings and unspecified human. Such takes provoke questions: about the role of the institution, the power of its space and myth, which decides what is art and what isn’t, it also provokes a question about the recipient himself, recipient who seems to be lost in the lab...

Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (Poland)

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