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Andrzej Lichota's paintings reveal a deep painterly culture and a fundamental awareness of the formal means he employs. "Looking at »Corrida« it is impossible to resist the thought that the matador's victory is possible only thanks to his art. The same law governs the life of an artist and decides whether a painting survives beyond the span of a single existence. To stand face to face with that truth is a challenge not only for those who fight, but for us, their audience. Watching the spectacle is easy; when it comes to fighting for life and death within it, the situation changes radically. To live through your own corrida - and to face it again. That is an artist's true victory. Always at the cost of life. The victorious red, a delight to the eye in every age, keeps that memory alive" - writes the curator, Ewa Herniczek.