Bogna Gniazdowska: Essays
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A private history of the war
The wartime photographs of a certain Jan Kotik, the Austrian-Hungarian subject we don’t know much about, the First World War goes on beyond the frame – noiselessly and bloodlessly.
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The beauty of the past
Bogna Gniazdowska has found her original method of how to paint the Past. She practices an interesting variety of historical painting. What are all those numerous portraits, forming a panorama of the past, after all? What are those properties appearing on the paintings?
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The war could not fit in those frames
We do not know much about Jan Kotik, the man who took those photos. He was a soldier, he had a camera with him, and, by recording individual pictures on the glass film, he was building a war narrative. The main characters were soldiers of the Austrian-Hungarian army, somewhere in the Monarchy’s outskirts during World War 1, and the civilians, almost always accompanied by soldiers
