Piotr Szmitke (Schmidtke) interdisciplinary artist and art theoretician. Visual artist, stage designer, composer, playwright and director. The author and propagator of a new notion in art - “metaverism". In 2005 the Silesian Opera in Bytom staged Piotr Szmitke's opera, The Hysterical Museum of Mme Eurosa. In 2009 the film The Crime of Icarus, directed by Szmitke, had its premiere. The same year, Piotr Szmitke was included in the list of 10 most versatile artists in Europe. During the almost 10 years of his stay in Paris he announces, in 1988, his “metaveristic manifesto”, according to which the material of art is history of art itself, and the artist is the curator who sets its rules. The notion of metaverism is a heuristic exemplification of the contradiction between the obligation of con