Despite the diversity of attitudes, the exhibition had a common feature of sharply framing reality and striving for abstraction. It was an art drained of emotionality, muted, based on observation and rhythm, tending towards geometry, distanced from the contemporary world. Another variation of the “A Cold Eye” was the exhibition “Complexes and Frustrations” organised in the Lublin Labyrinth Gallery, where this distance was significantly shortened. Other male and female artists also appeared in this presentation. In 2021, we are going back to our roots, trying to examine how the “A Cold Eye” became the “Frosty seeing” and what it means. How do contemporary painters look at the world and is it still painting? How have their pictorial strategies evolved? Does the frosty vision of the title mean that they pay more attention to reality and enter into dialogue with socio-political themes, or are they inclined to abstract? After years of artistic visions being constituted and radicalised, “Frosty seeing” shows a contemporary creative perspective. A warming of the climate usually results in a subsequent rapid cooling down to an ice age. In social life, the same is true: heated discourses and the heating up of a situation subsequently cause the situation to freeze. The frosty gaze, through a sheet of ice, full of inner heat, traces the agitation in the contemporary world. The artists use not only the medium of painting but also more direct means of expression.