Coffin: 70 x 90 x 203 cm
Chair: 84 x 40 x 34 cm
Ashtray: 11 x 13 x 5 cm
Origin
Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel-Aviv
Exhibited
Mañana, Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid, 2-3.1999.
The Towering Inferno. Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection. The Babel Trilogy: Part 1, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, 26.01-30.05.2014.
Literature
Dafnah Raz, Babel: Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv 2014, p. 86 (il.).
Biography
Graduated from the sculpture department of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1985. In the 1980s, author of figurative sculptures associated with the neo-expressionist trend. Since the early 1990s, he has been creating minimalist sculptural compositions using simple materials such as raw stone, wood, salt, ash and organic substances. The main theme of Bałka's sculptures and compositions is the human body and its accompanying "everyday" objects and substances, as well as the memory associated with the body. There are allusions to transience in his work, and the subject of the Holocaust is also important.
