Kingdom of La Gonâve | Creole Archive
The Centre of Polish Sculpture | Orońsko | Poland
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Kingdom of La Gonâve | Creole Archive
The Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko is a place where artists from different places in the world, with different cultural experiences and traditions meet. Sculpture, as the art of the matter, place and space is the best non-verbal language for an international conversation. The artists find in Orońsko a unique atmosphere for creating sculptures, objects, installations, performances. They have sculpture ateliers, tools and technical help at their disposal. The centre is a supporter of the objects created in Orońsko.
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Kingdom of La Gonâve | Creole Archive
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Kingdom of La Gonâve | Creole Archive
University of Rzeszów | Institute of Fine Arts | Rzeszów | Poland
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The Armorial of Kingdom La Gonâve
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Kingdom of La Gonâve | Creole Archive
ORANGERY Built after 1869 according to Alfred Schouppé’s design, the Orangery building originally played the role of a winter garden. It was seasonally used by Józef Brandt, his disciples and friends as a painting atelier. In the years 1986–1987 and 2008–2010 it was twice reconstructed according to the preserved documentation, and now serves as a unique exhibition space, with its unlimited access to daylight and the interpenetration of the gallery interior and exterior.
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Kingdom of La Gonâve

Creole Archive: Kingdom of La Gonâve Miami, Florida-based Jacek J. Kolasiński’s Creole Archive Project (2016-ongoing) is a growing group of disparate materials that explore Poland’s entanglements with Haiti going back to the early nineteenth century when Polish ex-legionaries were granted citizenship in the newly formed Haitian republic (1804). Here, Kolasiński assembles elements from his archive related to the fantastic yet true story of Poland’s relations to the broader Americas: the crowning of Polish-American U.S. Marine Faustin E. Wirkus, who was seen as the reincarnation of the Haitian Emperor Faustin-Élie Soulouque by the people of the Gonâve Island, in 1926. In this exhibition, Kolasiński creates a constellation from his archive that gestures towards a Polish Atlantic history rarely explored and how often the innocence, naivete, and delusions of grandeur of colonial expansion led to greed, depravity, and exploitation. His Creole Archive blurs fiction and the documentary: it includes 3-D printed recreations of objects, found material (photographs, magazines, military accoutrements) alongside other ephemera. Dr. Apesh Kantilal Patel, associate professor of contemporary art, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Pennsylvania and Fulbright Scholar in Poland (2015)

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