Unusual paintings were hung on Saturday in the Gallery under the Dome, celebrating its half-century. They are oils on canvas as if created especially for the space of the Historical Silver Mine: they originate in disused post-industrial spaces.

The author of these extraordinary works is Marta Czarnecka-Tokarz, a Tarnogórz resident, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, doctor of fine arts, author of several solo exhibitions and participant in more than 50 artistic projects in Poland and abroad. At the gallery, which for 50 years has been located in the building of the Historical Silver Mine, she showed part of the series 'Symbiotic objects-events'.

She talked about how the works were created during the vernissage on Saturday. First, in now-abandoned factories, plants - including the repair workshops of the Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge Railway, the Rozbark Mine and the Szombierki Combined Heat and Power Plant - she photographed machines that were no longer in use, on which time had left its mark. - They no longer resembled each other, rather organisms living their own lives. I made them into almost biological representations, living bodies," is how the artist describes the process of creating her images.

The opening was accompanied by atmospheric music by the duo Franek Lakuna and Rafał Sobczyk.

The exhibition is temporary. It can be viewed during the facility's opening hours.

Although according to Marta Czarnecka-Tokarz a photorealistic representation of reality seems to be a very naive representation of the world, we dared to show it in photographs at Saturday's vernissage 😊.