Małgorzata Kapłan Painting Opening: Colours of Silence
About the event
We invite you to the next exhibition at the Czytelnia Pod Sowami. This time it will feature landscape paintings by Małgorzata Kapłan.
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The exhibition will be open throughout February during the library's working hours.
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Opening reception: February 6, 5:00 PM.
“Małgorzata Kapłan is not an abstractionist, but—whether she wants to be or not—she somewhat uses the language of abstraction. I am referring here to the way she constructs compositions, shapes and the colour of objects visible within the frame of her canvases. Her paintings, composed of small and ever smaller colourful spots, create images of trees, houses, park benches, clouds, leaves in the wind, reflections on the water, etc. Each of these small spots is a component of the Great World and without even one of them that World would be incomplete. For the artist, colour is the most important element and she uses it consciously with full respect for the tradition of colourism, but also for the tradition of Young Poland painting. Here blue means blue, red means red and green means green. Colour is always accurate; intuition never fails the painter. Colour — besides being a value in itself — also serves a subordinate function, for example in suggesting the space of expansive landscapes.” Jerzy Pomian, “Małgorzata Kapłan: Description of the World”
Małgorzata Kapłan
- She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; diploma in the painting studio of Prof. J. Kaczmarski (1986).
- 1997–98: postgraduate studies in art therapy at Goldsmiths College, London.
- Founder and president of the Art Therapy Foundation "Kolorowy Start" (2009–2025).
- She is a member of the Association of Polish Visual Artists (ZPAP), Warsaw District.
- She has dozens of solo and group exhibitions to her name.
- The main motif and inspiration of her painting is the landscape; techniques: acrylic, oil, mixed media — on paper, canvas, silk and more.
- Her works are in private collections in Poland, England, France, America and China.
