THEFT AND DESTRUCTION

Opening: 21.02.2020 / 18:00 Venue: Galeria Arsenał, ul. A. Mickiewicza 2 Artists: Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Rafał Bujnowski, Wanda Czełkowska, Dom Mody Limanka, Edward Dwurnik (z kolekcji MOCAK), Olga Dziubak, Jakub Gliński, Tomasz Machciński, Petr Pavlensky, Julia Poziomecka, Mariola Przyjemska, Karol Radziszewski, Daniel Rycharski, Dominika Święcicka, Julita Wójcik, Janek Zamoyski with selection of works from Collection II of the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok: Mirosław Bałka, Oskar Dawicki, Maciej Kurak, Robert Kuśmirowski, Zbigniew Libera, Piotr Łakomy, Anna Molska, Odili Donald Odita, Ewa Partum, Aleksandra Polisiewicz, Rewizja, Jacek Sempoliński, Janek Simon, Marek Sobczyk. Curator: Michał Łukaszuk The Theft and Destruction exhibition intends to analyse the status of a work of art: its force, aura, asset power, transformation, and destruction. Sophisticated thieves, ingenious copyists, mysterious millionaires purchasing masterpieces on the black market have all been heroes of tabloid scandals, and of Hollywood films and myths feeding off the symbolic and economic aura of artworks