Five murals by artists from Poland, Germany, Italy and China are unveiled today on the walls of ten-storey buildings in the Zaspa Housing Estate in the Baltic city of Gdansk.

The works were realized within the framework of the European Festival ‘Monumental Art’, held under the motto ‘Freedom in the Time of Crisis’.

The curator of the project, artist Piotr Szwalbe, says the idea of the festival is to create in Zaspa Europe’s largest collection of large-size paintings.

The project is to consist of twenty four works covering a total area of 6,000 square metres.  Szwalbe himself is the author of the huge portrait of former president Lech Walesa on the walls of the house in which the Solidarity leader once lived. (mk/jb)

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