Final day of the exhibition: Ślepia - Krzysztof Nowicki at Galeria Willa

This formulation aptly describes the Baroque era, compared to a theater of vanity and obsession with external splendor. Beneath layers of powder, golden decorations, and in the shadow of outstanding artworks (desperate attempts to stop time), lurked the bitter, universal principle of vanitas. The title of Krzysztof Nowicki's exhibition emphasizes the multitude of problems intriguing the artist and their interpretations, as well as contradictions inherent in the concepts discussed. Combining techniques from European painting history with his own creative strategies and signaling hidden mechanisms of domination and tension, Nowicki presents nature as a constant space of transaction, surveillance, and struggle. The individual floors and rooms of Galeria Willa enabled the artist to...