Chamber sculpture, white satin material, stitched, filling: cotton, height: 13,5 cm, ed. 10 pieces
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About the Author: Pawel Althaimer was born in 1967 in Warsaw, Poland. Graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, graduating in the studio of Grzegorz Kowalski. Together with his studio colleagues, including Katarzyna Kozyra, Jacek Markiewicz, Jacek Adams, he co-founded one of the leading groups of young Polish art of the 1990s, i.e. "Kowalski's Studio" commonly known as "Kowalnia". Sculptor, performer, actioner and creator of installations and videos. In 2004, he received the prestigious Vincent Van Gogh Award from the Dutch de Broere Foundation. In 2010, he received the Special Award for Creator of Culture at the "Polityka" Passports gala. He is an associate of the Foksal Gallery Foundation. His work and artistic activities are described in "Zatańczą ci, co dr drżeli. Polish Critical Art" by Karol Sienkiewicz. He has exhibited his work at Documenta X in Kassel (1997), Manifesta in Ljubljana (2000), Venice Biennale (2003), "6 Sculptures" (Galeri Man, Sammlung Goetz, Munich; "Polyyethylene", MUSEION, Bolzano, 2012); "Neighbours" (New Museum, New York, 2014); "Ochse" (Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw,2018); "I(AM)" (Helsinki Art Museum, Helisnki, 2019).
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