Tomasz Thun-Janowski, dyrektor Biura Kultury m.st. Warszawy, o muralu BLU

The message connected to public
theatre is not an advertisement.

I understand that the Theatre Institute is an institution,

but the whole explanation of the artist and the
graphics as such have nothing to do with advertising.

And I think that Woynarowski
didn't deserve the suggestions

that he is practising some clandestine advertising,

because he is a top-class artist,
and I think he deserves respect.

I know that he pulled out also because of the
atmosphere that came to surround his figure,

a very mean and unpleasant one,

and I think that's not right.

We are thus left in Warsaw with an old,
deteriorating mural, it really is in a bad shape,

and with the sense that today, no
mural can ever be painted over.

With this suggestion that these works, which, I think
that after all, according to the spirit of street art,

are supposed to be evanescent, temporary,

which are meant as interventions and sometimes
the way that they are created borders on the illegal –

that these would be supposed to function eternally.

And it worries me, in that we don’t
have an excess of free wall space

which would allow us to paint new murals
and leave the ones created earlier.

And, to be honest, the foundations that organise
mural painting do not always have the means

and possibilities of maintaining
their works in good condition.