Lot description
TOMEK KAWIAK (Poland, 1943). Untitled. 1980. Bronze. Signed and dated. Measurements: 50 x 43 x 10 cm. Polish sculptor. Tomek Kawiak graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, after studying painting, graphic design, ceramics and architecture. In the 1990s he lived and worked in Saint-Antoine de Grasse and in Italy. He currently lives and works in Tangier and France. Tomek has more than 100 solo exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world. He is included in numerous public and private collections in Europe, the United States, Latin America, Japan, China, Korea, Australia and Morocco. Recently, in Poland, he received the decoration of Knight of Arts and Letters Gloria Arts. In his sculptures he often depicts themes linked to circumstances experienced in his childhood. For example, he has a series of sculptures in which he alludes to jeans (pockets, jackets, trousers...) because in Eastern countries, they were unaffordable for the majority of the population due to low wages.