Marta Sculpture

Raf Tarnawski was born in Wroclaw, Poland. At ten years old, he printed his first photographs, and exhibited his graphic works while still in high school in Walbrzych, Poland. After completing the graphics school in Lund, Sweden, he worked for many years as a Creative Director for many international advertising agencies, all the while creating his own artwork in photography, graphics, painting, ceramics and design. His own first painting exhibit took place in Eslov, Sweden, in the late 1980’s. In 2006, Raf Tarnawski started to study sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw, Poland, in professor P. Gawron’s studio. Since then, he has presented his sculptures at individual and joint exhibits in Poland, Germany, France, Taiwan and Sweden. Raf Tarnawski utilizes a vast range of materials and techniques to convey the essence of his subject, and makes use of distortion and deconstruction of the form to relate to an emotional or physical condition - in order to tell a story. Art is perceived as a means of communication. A universal form of communication, on a higher plane. The plane of aesthetics and beauty - that ethereal entity that is the basis of our universe and which lends meaning to our existence.