Artist: Jacek Malinowski
Museum: Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu (Toruń, Poland)
Technique: Photograph
The work of Jacek Malinowski is a collection of nine small black-and-white photographs mounted on glass. The pictures present the reconstruction of Adolf Eichmann’s cell in a prison in Ramla (Israel), where the Nazi criminal spent the last nine months of his life. Careful reconstruction of the prison facilities was based on images from the “Life” weekly, made and published in 1961 during the trial of the criminal. In Malinowski’s photographs, one can see a severe, very austere interior, where there is only a bed, a stool and a sink. There are both frames showing the full view of the cell, as well as close-ups of various details and items, which can be found there. [P. Lisowski]The work of Jacek Malinowski is a collection of nine small black-and-white photographs mounted on glass. The pictures present the reconstruction of Adolf Eichmann’s cell in a prison in Ramla (Israel), where the Nazi criminal spent the last nine months of his life. Careful reconstruction of the prison facilities was based on images from the “Life” weekly, made and published in 1961 during the trial of the criminal. In Malinowski’s photographs, one can see a severe, very austere interior, where there is only a bed, a stool and a sink. There are both frames showing the full view of the cell, as well as close-ups of various details and items, which can be found there.The reproduced cell was employed by the artist as a scenography for the film Nosferatu. The fear dictator (2011), and it simultaneously becomes the documentation relating to the process of making the film, as well as an independent work of art, which can be considered as an integral part of it. The film itself is a two-part story (Berlin, Warschau) inspired by two famous adaptations of Bram Stoker
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