Julia Curyło - H˚ particle
February 23, 2012 - April 21, 2012
Julia Curyło's newest series of paintings presented at the aTAK Gallery continues the artist's interest in the need for the spiritual manifested in popular culture and addresses the perception of scientific progress in the context of creationist beliefs. The 'Hº particle' appearing in the exhibition's title refers to the awe-inspiring LHC project conducted by the European Organisa...
more...Interpenetrations - Paintings
December 08, 2011 - February 11, 2012
"Interpenatrationa" has been inspired by the book titled "From the gallery of meanings. Selected texts on art" by art critic and connoisseur Janusz Jaremowicz, published by Polish Modern Art Foundation in 2010, with the support of collector and patron of the arts Krzysztof Musiał. In the last year of this life, Jaremowicz maintained close and friendly contacts with the aTAK Gallery, and fo...
more...Stanisław Baj - Everything Flows
September 23, 2011 - November 26, 2011
The exhibition focuses on Baj's landscapes, one of two themes essential to his art. he has remained faithful to a single location on the shore of the meandering Bug River from which he observes and analyses the volatile spectacle of nature. He paints his favourite motif from nature but interpretations range from realistic to abstract but underlain with symbolism. His deliberately limited focus has...
more...Marek Sobczyk Marek Sobczyk - Twice Too Many Pictures [research on the Brain in Poland]
May 27, 2011 - September 17, 2011
Marek Sobczyk's painting is art at its most sublime. The artist, co-founder of the Warsaw Gruppa, the period's most important art group in Poland, has consistently addressed – in his art as well as theoretical reflection – the issues fundamental to painting, the picture, the artist, and society. Sobczyk deals with ontology, axiology, aesthetics, and metaphysics of art. And he approaches...
more...Zbysław Marek Maciejewski - Self-portrait, impatience, ecstasy
March 18, 2011 - May 21, 2011
Zbysław Marek Maciejewski (1946-1999), painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, was among the best known Polish artists of the 1980s and 1990s. Admired for his virtuosity, a realist interested in man and nature, he regarded himself as an inheritor of Polish Colourism and Art Nouveau whose style he continued and developed with panache and creat...
more...Southern Landscape 2010. Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita
January 28, 2011 - March 12, 2011
more...Southern Landscape 2010. Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita
January 28, 2011 - March 12, 2011
The exhibition showcases works executed during the workshop organised by Krzysztof Musiał in the summer of 2010 at Vellano in Tuscany. The host invited Professor Ryszard Woźniak, co-founder of the GRUPPA, together with his former and current students of his painting class at Zielona Góra University (Basia Bańda, Sławek Czajkowski, Monika Czekańska, Michał Jankowski, Aleksandra Kubiak, El...
more...Southern Landscape 2010. Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita
January 27, 2011 - March 12, 2011
more...Włodzimierz Jan Zakrzewski - LINE AND STROKE. Paintings and Works on Paper from 1980s
November 26, 2010 - January 22, 2011
The 1980s remain a relatively obscure period in the career of Włodzimierz Jan Zakrzewski. An alumnus of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (class of Professor Krystyna Łada Studnicka, MFA 1970), he decided to pursue painting in the times dominated by Conceptual Art and New Media. In the 1970s, his works were featured at several individual and group exhibitions. In 1981, he left for the United St...
more...Stefan Gierowski - Hue, Lightness, Saturation
September 17, 2010 - November 20, 2010
Stefan Gierowski belongs to the pretty exclusive club of artists who – having debuted in the mid-20th century and witnessing the developments of the recent six decades – have remained faithful to painting. Painting has remained his sole medium of choice. He has always painted in oil pigments on a square of canvas. Since 1957, he has marked his abstract compositions with successive Roman...
more...Jarosław Modzelewski - A. Nature B. Industry C. Culture and Leisure (In a Broad Sense)
May 28, 2010 - September 11, 2010
The exhibition features the artist's recent works. Its title refers to this inspirations and concerns: woods in the Warsaw area, his study, landscape, industrial architecture with the power-and-heat plant Żerań. Are these pieces representational art or is it reality taking on the appearance of the pictures? Marek Sobczyk's essay in the exhibition catalogue of his design addresses these questions...
more...Jan Dziaczkowski - True and Untrue American Stories
April 15, 2010 - May 22, 2010
"American pictures are records of the artist's real trip. However, it also involves searching the Net and Google Earth and his fascination with and references to American authors, artists, and movies. Therefore his journey knows no boundaries or constraints: it is full of surprising encounters, punctuated with unexpected collisions, and animated by happy coincidences. The tourists are joined by t...
more...Andalusia 1280°C
March 04, 2010 - April 10, 2010
This exhibition will show the results of the 2009 open air ceramic expedition to Andalusia, to which Krzysztof Musiał invited Antonina Grzegorzewska, Piotr Lorek, Andrzej Łopiński, and Robert Maciejuk.
more...Wojciech Fangor - Palimpsest
January 13, 2010 - February 27, 2010
The exhibition at the aTAK Gallery continues the theme of the artist's recent works in which he returns to his drawings made decades ago and transposes them into the medium of painting. The Palimpsest exhibition showcases a new stage in his re-interpretation of drawing which used to perform an auxiliary function but here it has been given priority: Fangor has made his oil paintings follow h...
more...Southern Landscape 2008. Paintings-Tablecloths
October 16, 2009 - December 31, 2009
This exhibition will show the results of the 2008 open air painting expedition to Tuscany, to which Krzysztof Musiał invited Tomasz Ciecierski, Ryszard Grzyb, Robert Maciejuk, Paweł Susid, Tomasz Tatarczyk and Włodzimierz Jan Zakrzewski.
Artur Nacht-Samborski .Touch of Abstraction-book promotion
October 01, 2009 - October 10, 2009
The exhibition will accompany the promotion of the book comprising pannel discussion "Abstractionist works of Artur Nacht-Samborski in the artist's oeuvre", happened at aTAK Gallery in 2007.
more...Summer Show
September 01, 2009 - September 19, 2009
Arists: Wojciech Ćwiertniewicz, Wojciech Fangor, Paweł Kałużyński, Agnieszka Kicińska, Robert Maciejuk, Jarosław Modzelewski, Artur Nacht-Samborski, Teresa Pągowska, Jacek Sienicki, Katarzyna Sobczuk,Antoni Starowieyski, Leon Tarasewicz, Wojciech Zubala
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Paweł Kałużyński - A Bulletproof Heart
May 22, 2009 - June 27, 2009
The exhibition features selected oil paintings from the series created over the last two years. The artist refers to the painterly idiom of the "new wild" of the 1980s. In vivid colours and broad brushstrokes, he paints characters and scenes characteristic of American culture. He also renders characters from children stories, icons of pop culture and ground breaking historical events.
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Antoni Starowieyski - Painting
April 04, 2009 - May 16, 2009
The present exhibition features a selection of oil paintings by Antoni Starowieyski created in the recent decade. During this period, when his style has crystallized, the artist explores traditional subjects: interior, figure in an interior, and landscape. By eliminating superficial details, he has reached a comprehensive and harmonious painterly vision built of colour and light, animated by colou...
more...Waldemar Umiastowski - scribbles
February 12, 2009 - March 28, 2009
"This presentation will be quite a surprise for all those who have followed Waldemar Umiastowski's progress since his debut at the beginning of the nineteen-eighties. His lightened, vivid palette, which he had previously reserved for his graphic works of a more practical nature, has brought to his canvases a spontaneous riot of colour, whose dynamics are emphasized by thick gobbets of dripping pai...
more...Jacek Sienicki - Painting and works on paper
December 12, 2008 - January 30, 2009
The exhibition presented here is the first posthumous showing of Jacek Sienicki's painting to take place in Warsaw. It represents a selection of the artist's key works from those series of works that may be considered the most characteristic of his style. Sienicki consistently painted several particular motifs, selected from his nearest surroundings, such as the interior of his studio, portr...
more...Teresa Pągowska - Measuring Time
September 05, 2008 - November 29, 2008
Teresa Pągowska "Measuring time". Paintings from the years 1962 - 2006. Part I: September 5th - October 18th Part II: October 22nd - November 29th
more...Jan Dobkowski - Titanic
June 12, 2008 - August 02, 2008
Jan Dobkowski's exhibition, specially prepared for the aTAK Gallery is a presentation of his latest series entitled "Titanic", comprising eighteen large-format paintings. The title of this series refers to the legendary ship Titanic, a symbol of modern technology at the beginning of the 20th century, which as a result of its crashing into an iceberg sank in the middle of the Atlantic in 1912...
more...Southern Landscape. Tuscany 2007
May 08, 2008 - June 07, 2008
This exhibition will show the results of the 2007 open air painting expedition to Vellano, Tuscany in July 2007, organised by Krzysztof Musial. Professor Jaroslaw Modzelewski invited a group of his friends and students from his painting studio at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.
The painters invited include: Agata Borowa, Dorota Borowa, Agnieszka Kicińska, Robert Maciejuk, Igor Przyb...
Wojciech Ćwiertniewicz - Men
April 03, 2008 - April 30, 2008
"The true male body, the truth of this body, continues to be a great taboo, despite the delusion that we live in a culture where sexuality and corporality have ceased to be secret. Wojciech Ćwiertniewicz's nudes reach to the essence of this taboo and simultaneously uphold it" (quoted from Paweł Leszkowicz's text for the exhibition catalogue)
The aTAK Gallery is pleased to invite ...
The Tarasewicz Studio in Andalusia
February 29, 2008 - March 26, 2008
This exhibition will show the results of the 2007 open air painting expedition to Andalusia, to which Krzysztof Musiał invited Professor Leon Tarasewicz and Wojciech Zubala together with students from Professor Leon Tarasewicz's painting studio at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. The painters invited include: Tymek Borowski, Eliza Danowska, Maria Szkop and Paweł Śliwiński.
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Transitions recorded - Abstractions. Polish art after 1945, from Krzysztof Musiał collection.
January 29, 2008 - February 23, 2008
more...Records of Changes - Figurative Art. Polish art after 1945, from Krzysztof Musiał collection.
December 18, 2007 - January 23, 2008
more...Artur Nacht-Samborski - A Touch of Abstraction
October 11, 2007 - December 07, 2007
This exhibition is an exceptional opportunity to acquaint oneself with the, so far unknown to the wider public, abstract themes in the work by Artur Nacht-Samborski - one of the classics of Polish modern art. The artist, recognised first and foremost as the author of still lifes with rubber plants, nudes, and portraits, also created non-representative works, although these are deeply rooted ...
more...Marcin Stosik - Paintings and drawings
September 14, 2007 - October 05, 2007
aTAK Gallery invites you to a retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by Marcin Stosik. The exhibition will feature over 50 works, among which will be both early studies and painter's drafts as well as the artist's mature works from the last years of his life. The painter's work, which ended with his premature death in April 2006, is complicated both in formal and ideological te...
more...Wojciech Fangor - Works on paper in colour 1948-2006
June 01, 2007 - July 31, 2007
This exhibition of drawings by Wojciech Fangor, one of the most prominent of Polish artists, represents all the periods of his work. The works shown encompass sketches for oil paintings, posters and spatial compositions as well as separate, completed works on paper. The great majority of the works displayed have never been shown before.
Curator of the exhibition: Jerzy Wojciechowsk...
Grzegorz Bednarski - A hedonist depicts the Crucifixion
May 10, 2007 - May 25, 2007
The series "A hedonist depicts the Crucifixion" was created in the years 1998-2002 and includes large and medium format oil paintings (8 works) as well as a set of a dozen or so pastels. Also connected with this series is a fresco with the same title designed by Bednarski and painted by him along with Bogdan Klechowski on a wall of the Rentgen artistic diner on Szczepański Square in Krakow. That ...
more...Southern Landscape. Tuscany 2006
April 02, 2007 - April 27, 2007
During the opening night of the exhibition "Southern Landscape 2006", which took place on March 30th, Marcin Błażewicz's Piano Quintet, as interpreted by the Chopin Quintet, was played.
This performance of the work was prepared as a result of many joint rehearsals with the composer by a group composed of students from the Warsaw Academy of Music, which were organised during the Andalusian... more...