The three artists from Lublin display different artistic approaches and varied manners of visualisation. The common trait of their oeuvre is the perception of reality through the prism of the time, passing, and memory. During the ceremony, Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Protocol Agnieszka Szczepaniak underlined that the opening of the exhibition coincides with an important anniversary:

“With this exhibition we have concluded the 15th anniversary year of the Smolensk crash. Anniversaries always prompt reflection on the passing of time, and the exhibition ‘The Memory of the image’ speaks mainly about transience,”

said Agnieszka Szczepaniak.

The current exhibition is a reference to the first one, which was presented in the Diplomat’s Gallery in 2010. The same artists who took part in the first “Meetings with Graphic Art” organised 15 years ago at the headquarters of the MFA’s Diplomatic Protocol were invited to participate. 

“In 2010, Mariusz Kazana invited today’s artists, who were already renowned and admired dot linocut masters at the time, to this gallery. The exhibition was scheduled to open on 16 April and dealt with transience and absence. There was something prophetic about this choice of subject. Art anticipated life. Life that ended abruptly on 10 April 2010. Fifteen years later, we invited the same great artists, connecting the past with the present, thus closing the circle of history,”

said Barbara Kazana, President of the Mariusz Kazana Foundation. 

This was another event organised under the three-party cooperation between the MFA’s Department of Promotion and Cultural Diplomacy, the Mariusz Kazana Foundation, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. 
The works are on display until March 2026. 

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The Mariusz Kazana Foundation was set up in 2010, after the diplomat’s tragic death in the presidential plane crash near Smolensk. It aims to keep the memory of the former director of the Diplomatic Protocol alive and to carry on with his mission of building a positive image of Poland by popularising culture and art both at home and abroad.