“The Captive Mind” by Czesław Miłosz a "devastating study" which "totally discredited the cultural and psychological machinery of Communism", compared often to Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, has been published by The Limited Edition Club 1984. For this very special edition a young Polish illustrator Janusz Kapusta, living in New York since 1981 and publishing his works in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Nature, The Print and any more has been commissioned to contribute his illustrations.

ArtPolonia is honoured to present an exhibition of selected works by Janusz Kapusta including his illustrations of “The Captive Mind” along with his other awards wining illustrations.

Janusz Kapusta’s work can be found in the collections of many museums and galleries around the world including Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art in Lodz, The IBM Collection. His work ranges from small graphic forms, posters, magazine illustrations, graphic design, book illustrations, to set designs and painting. In 1985 Janusz Kapusta also discovered a new geometrical shape - an eleven faced polyhedron, which he called the K-dron, used in fine arts and architecture and in the applied arts. In May 2004, Kapusta won a Grand Prix in an international competition in Ankara commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Turkish Republic. As a visiting professor, Kapusta collaborated with the newly established School of Visual Art and New Media in Warsaw.

It is the only organisation with a specific focus on cultural exchange between both communities.

Since December 2007 ArtPolonia has also opened its programme to international artists and aims at establishing regular contacts between the international artists and audiences in Dublin.

In this year’s programme, along with works by excellent Polish artists, were included outstanding works of artists from Ireland, UK, USA, Germany, Sweden and Israel. This approach will be continued.

Our long term goal is to establish a professional forum for intercultural cooperation in Dublin with a special focus on the Irish and Polish exchange both in Ireland and Poland.

Our mission is based on the underestimated fact that in an unstable and permanently changing environment high level cultural events are crucial in the creation of a social space of reference for personal and collective identities, values as well as for involvement and development.