In the fall of 2023, a nationwide jury has selected an artistic project to be carried out at the 60th International Venice Art Biennale entitled “Polish Exercises in the Tragic Nature of the World. between Germany and Russia. However, at the end of December, the Minister of Culture Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz decided not to display the exhibition.
The project is to consist of a series of at least a dozen paintings by Ignasi Trzetsios, most of which were previously presented at Zacchaeta in Warsaw. The exhibition turned out to be quite controversial – some received it with enthusiasm, while others received it with reluctance or even open criticism. According to the latter, he was at the same time very Polish and Christian, while the former found in him some deep truth about their own destiny and that of society.
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