‘Hasior is akin to late medieval artists-poets, who evoked the beautiful and monstrous world connecting reality with metaphor and the beyond, a world meant to enchant people tormented by reality and longing to transcend it – the era of Hieronymus Bosch, Bruegel, witches, or the Spanish aficionados of torture. [...] In his works, no object is what it is, but what it can be seen as by an unrestrained imagination. It is also a fairy tale because in Hasior’s sentences words have different meanings than when taken separately.’ ‘Władysław Hasior’s works are universal. They are also very Polish. Though connected to Podhale – its culture, faith, history, natural environment, to that which determines work and the rhythm of life, that which belongs to the tradition and the present of the region – their meaning is universal. It is not an added part next to other, local values. On the contrary. Everything Hasior makes contains universal aspects’, wrote the art historian Marek Rostworowski. Władysław Hasior died in Zakopane on July 14, 1999. During his lifetime, the gallery was where the meetings with art that he organised took place. Contemporary artists were always presented in the part intended for temporary exhibitions – painters, sculptors, and photographers displaying their works.