Kacper PIELASZEK (b. 1996), Head Study - Mr. Flower, 2022

porcelain with molochite, enamel gold, plum wood, 50 x 22 x 26 cm, signed on the inside with a creative mark in the form of a triangle with three dots

Kacper Pielaszek - was born in 1996 in Warsaw. He comes from a family with violin-making traditions. He began his artistic education at the State Music School Complex No. 1 in Warsaw. He graduated from the Wojciech Gerson State High School of Fine Arts in Warsaw with a specialization in Interior Design. Since 2016, a student of sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studios of, successively, Prof. Grzegorz Witek, Ph.D., Prof. Jan Kucz, and Prof. Andrzej Sołyga, Ph.D.. In 2018, as part of the Erasmus program, he studied in Italy at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino in the studio of Prof. Franko Bosisio. Graduate of the sculpture department of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts . He earned his diploma in the atelier of Prof. Andrzej Sołyga, an annex in sculpture in architecture under the direction of Prof. Paweł Mysera, and an annex in drawing in the atelier of Prof. Małgorzata Gurowska. He currently works and creates in his hometown of Kozerki near Grodzisk Mazowiecki.

Winner of the Prime Minister's Scholarship in 2015/16. Participant of exhibitions and plein-air events, including:
- All-Poland open air sculpture Stone Wood Ceramics, Radom-Orońsko 2015,
- Plein Air of the Infinity of Nature, Sczecinek 2017,
- XVIII International Foundry Workshop, Gdansk 2018,
- Student exhibition "Why do you come so late?", Points Gallery, ASP in Warsaw 2019,
- "GIFA Exhibition 2019 // Art Castings," Düsseldorf 2019,
- "Decade of Fire" exhibitions, with the ceramics studio of ptof. ASP of Dr. Stanislaw Brach, Stara Kopalnia gallery, Walbrzych 2020,
- Symposium of Contemporary Sculpture, Center for Polish Sculpture, Orońsko 2020,
- 6th Student Biennial of Small Sculptural Forms, Poznan 2021,
- Exhibitions "Your ( insert appropriate name here ) time is over" gallery Future Unfinished, Warsaw 2021,
- Exhibitions "Geometric Space", Boleslaw Biegas gallery, Ciechanow 2022,
- Exhibitions "Machines - sculptural observation in time and space", Jan Pazdura Museum of Nature and Technology "Ekomuzeum", Starachowice 2022,
- "From the Earth" exhibitions, Palace in Chrzęsne, 2022,
- "Overflight 2022" exhibitions, NAP showroom, Warsaw 2022