Dimensions: dia:35 cm
Signed: 'Aleksandra Kujawska'.
Literature
"Julia Keilova, widely known for the spherical forms of design characteristic of her work. Julia's spherical silver sugar bowls made of metal are a canon of Polish design. Like Julia, I am a designer and sculptor. I think this is what unites us, a sculptural approach to form. The ability of sculptors to work in 3D makes their designs so wonderfully spatial, a play on pure form, perfect proportions, remarkable shapes. I chose Julia as my matron for the next edition of Herstory because her design, way of designing and fascination with spheres are extremely close to my heart. In order to pay tribute to her work, I realized the spherical sculpture " Julia's Dream" . The sculpture resembles the Moon with sunken air bubbles like craters on the Moon. "Julia's Dream" is silvered with real silver, referring to the silver spherical forms of Julia's design."
ALEXANDRA KUJAWSKA
Biography
Aleksandra Kujawska's work deals with man's atavistic longing for nature and community. She has participated in dozens of group and solo exhibitions, including in Paris, London, Milan, Luxembourg, Venice, Novi Bor, Sofia, Dresden, Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Lodz, Gdynia and Jelenia Gora.
It has won, among others: 1st place - Furniture Diamond, 1st place in the international competition "Glass Improvisation". She is the winner of "Must Have 2020" Lodz Design, winner of " Must Have 2021" Łódź Design Festival, Finalist of the " Good Design 2021" Competition. Institute of Industrial Design in Warsaw, and also received- a special mention of the "Design Educated" Competition in Germany. She has participated in exhibitions of the most important world design festivals, such as London Design Week, Expo Milan, Salone del Mobile Milano, Venetian Glass Week, Sofia Glass Biennale, Gdynia Design Days, Łódź Design Festival. Her works are in the collections of the Karkonosze Museum, the Museum of Ceramic Techniques in Koło and the Gallery of Polish Design at the National Museum in Warsaw. She has received scholarships and grants, including: Ministry of Culture and Art and National Heritage, Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, Urban Glass in New York, Pilchuck Glass School in the USA. Vice President of the Scientific Circle of Glass Students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, curator of exhibitions, author of publications on glass art.
About her work she says: I am interested in the relationship between man and nature. In my works I focus on the atavistic needs of modern man's contact with nature and community.
I look for areas of human desire, emotions related to the loss of these relationships and longing for them.
I am interested in modern man's realization that he is biological, that he is part of nature with which he has lost contact and whose existence he has forgotten.
I am far from constructing instructions or everyday life. I am interested in the process of self-awareness and the emotions, needs, longings, fears associated with it.
I try to describe them in my works.
