Sketches served Józef Czapski as a record of emotions and impressions evoked by a moment, a shape, or light. With just a few strokes, sometimes a splash of colour, the artist was able to compose a drawing that conveyed not so much the real objectivity as the mood of a particular scene.

Even more than painting, they were an affirmation of the world. The idea of juxtaposing Czapski’s works with collages by his great admirer Grzegorz Kozera was born in 2019, when Grzegorz Kozera, a newly minted NCK scholarship holder, followed in Czapski’s footsteps to Argentina. The fruit of the journey were collages – impromptu, humorous comments on the observed world, drawings, as well as a series of discoveries made along Czapski’s pilgrimage route.

Józef Czapski (1896–1993) – painter, writer, critic and co-founder of the Paris-based Kultura magazine, one of the pillars of the Paris Committee, whose influence on 20th-century Polish painting cannot be overestimated.

Grzegorz Kozera (born 1983) – painter and collage artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and art historian. In his work, he engages in a dialogue with tradition, treating it as a field of meanings and references to the great masters. He was a scholarship holder of the National Centre for Culture.

Curator: Katarzyna Haber
Opening: 9 April at 6 p.m.
Exhibition open until 14 June

More information coming soon!

Exhibition financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.