December 5, 2024 - February 15, 2025
The current exhibition presents works by seven Polish artists from the Krzysztof Musiał collection: Józef Pankiewicz, Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa, Józef Czapski, Piotr Potworowski, Artur Nacht-Samborski and Zygmunt Waliszewski. Those were the most prominent of the dozen or so students from the Cracow Academy of Art, who in September 1924 spontaneously decided to leave for Paris in order to continue their studies in France. They followed their professor Józef Pankiewicz in their quest to discover French and international art, treasures of the Louvre and the beauty of Provencal landscape bathed in the southern light, which they would love to paint so much. They called themselves “Paris Committee” (later referred to as Kapists) and have become the best recognisable group of artists on the Polish 20th century art scene.
The exhibition is accompanied by a substantial Polish-English catalogue (200 pages and as many illustrations) and it brings to a close this centennial Kapists anniversary and sums up the several exhibitions devoted to the Kapists’ art organised at the aTAK Gallery over the last fifteen years.
Curator: Jerzy Wojciechowski