Tomasz Kawiak, CEGGEL IN THE POCKET OF JINTS, 1977

33.0 x 27.0 cm - bronze, stone base, brick dimensions: 31 x 26 cm (bronze), with base 33 x 27 cm

signed l.g.: TOMEK KAWIAK, signature repeated on brick: TOMEK KAWIAK, inscription on reverse: EA



♣ to the price auctioned, in addition to other costs, a fee will be added, resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)

Tomasz Kawiak studied painting and interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1962 to 1967, receiving his diploma in 1968. From 1968 to 1970 he was an assistant in the ceramics studio at the painting department of his alma mater. He was one of the first and most visible actioners of his generation. In 1970 he presented the memorable action "Tom Kawiak's Pain", during which he bandaged trees mutilated by the municipal services on one of Lublin's streets. In the same 1970 he left for Paris, where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1971 to 1973. Parallel to his studies, in 1971 he inaugurated a long-term exchange action called "Trock-Art." Another action calculated to last for a long time was the action of "briquetage", which consisted in leaving the artist identical bricks fired in red clay, measuring 20 x 10 x 3 cm, in the places he visited during his numerous trips. An important iconographic motif for Kawiak since the early 1970s have been blue jeans, which over time have become a kind of fetish for his art, as have the contents of his pockets - both of which are recorded in sculptural casts, multiples, paintings, drawings and so on.