The Brothers Karamazov is a good book. It is about the Karamazov brothers. Indeed, it is about everything. Lautrec is dead. Schiele is dead. Most of the living feel poorly. That is why we absolutely must do something. That is what the Karamazov brothers say. But they don't exist. And us?

Jan Cieślak

Lautrec's circus is over. Lautrec died, so did Schiele. What a sense of humour. I suppose you don't have to prove anything, healthy man. But the awareness of error (Stańko), what an awareness that is. Chylak (curator B) asked me what all the people I paint have in common. Maybe they were ill? I have never managed to paint anyone ill. But I will keep trying. Cieślak, on the other hand (A): we have to do this joint exhibition. But coming back to The Death of Lautrec, I suppose it's all the same.

Some queen or other has died. I do it clumsily, but I describe a human being. And more seriously still, I'm going to die soon anyway. The rest is the curators' fault. They chose the paintings and told me to write this text.

Long live Frank O’Hara.

Łukasz Zbroja

Łukasz Zbroja

He was born in 1985 in Warsaw. He began his education late. After returning from England, where he worked among other places in a port (Dover), he graduated from the Studio Sztuki photography technical college in Warsaw's Żoliborz. There he attended the lectures of Professor A. Zygmuntowicz. At that time he apprenticed with his master and mentor Michał Moląg at Stara Prochownia. He then completed painting at the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw in the studio of Professor A. Jaźwińska, and went on to take his master's degree, also in painting, in Zielona Góra at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zielona Góra, in the studio of St. Kortyka. After returning to Warsaw he posed as a model in the medal art studio of Professor H. Jelonek, where his interest in sculpture grew. He defended his degree in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the studio of Professor A. J. Pastwa, completing at the same time two annexes: in painting in the studio of Professor M. Woszczyński and in drawing in the studio of Professor M. Gurowska. When he leaves the studio he roams the back alleys and cesspits – he is a sewage worker.