In April, the Manggha Museum presents the exhibition Koji Kamoji. Silence and the Will to Live prepared by the Zachęta National Art Gallery. The retrospective of the Japanese artist, born in Tokyo in 1935 but living and working in Warsaw since the late 1950s, includes his works created since the 1960s until his most recent paintings, drawings and installation, the most important element of his work. Koji Kamoji, graduate of the Tokyo and Warsaw academies of fine art and closely associated with the Foksal Gallery for many decades, combines the aesthetic sensitivities of the Far East with the experience of western avant-garde. His work has a metaphysical dimension: he intertwines art, life, an intuitive sense for nature and Buddhist spirituality into a coherent whole, imbued with a desire to experience the heart of the matter, the world and our existence in it. The title of the exhibition comes from the monumental installation the artist prepared especially for the exhibition – a metaphorical depiction of the relationship between humankind and nature recalling Japanese garden traditions. (Dorota Dziunikowska, “Karnet" magazine)