Zbylut Grzywacz (1939 - 2004), IV In February and March 2004, Zbylut wrote an essay which has been preserved in two versions, entitled 'Meat and Metafizyka', then 'Metafizyka i Meat'. He began by remarking: 'Meat fascinates painters in a special way. (…) It is located halfway between the object and the organic world, because although it is already dead, there is still life in it. And it is so mercilessly, so painfully similar to ours'. He analyzed images of the body torn open. Not a body included in the anatomical canon, subject to the rigors of proper proportions, but turned inside out, deformed, bloody.

There is Raja, a still life by Jean-Bapriste Chardin, where a cross-sectioned fish hangs on a hook, 'huge, disembowele...