“I believe that a painting is alive when it has an inner light. Painting is not a magma without beginning and end, touching on possible types of message and media. As a visual statement, it has its own articulation, language, composition, theme, performance. And now, far into the forest, we have moved away from the abstract legibility of the idea of an icon, from the truth of a painting by Degas, Munch or Malczewski, with its complexity, from the clarity of Balthus or Giacometti's expression, moving forward in time closer to us.

Today, the advantage is the excess of content over form or form over content, lack of clear criteria, full freedom. Mariusz Woszczynski Mariusz Woszczynski was born in Warsaw. He studied at the Pa...