Artist: TOMASZ FRASOŃSKI
Country: POLAND
Title: Time capsules - Two Objects
Size: 27 x 24 x 12 cm, 25 x 28 x 14 cm
Technique: artist's own technique: crochet, glass, UV glue
Year: 2018
Biography: Tomasz Frasoński was born in 1993 in Radom, Poland. He graduated from the Secondary School of Visual Arts in Radom. From 2014 to 2015 he was on the scholarship at the Faculty of Technology of Textiles in Zagreb, Croatia where he also spent some time on a placement and worked on a research project of luminescence of yarns and textiles in 2016. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland with a degree in the Studio of Experimental Textile under the tuition of prof. Lidia Choczaj with an annex in photography (2016) and in the Studio of Photographic document under the tuition of doctor Maciej Rawluk (2017). Currently, he is on the master degree studies at the Faculty of Textile Art and Fashion Design at his home university. He has participated in numerous competitions and exhibitions, including: the Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki Zdrój, Poland (2013); the Studio of Paper of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (2013); the “Gea” Miniartextil Como: Villa Olmo in Como, Italy; the Ville de Montrouge in Paris, France; the Musée de la Dentelle in Caudry, France; the Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice, Italy (2014); the “From Lausanne to Beijing” 8th International Fiber Art Exhibition in Natong, China (2014); the “Afrika – Istraživanje Reciklaža” exhibition in the Gallery of Knjižnica Kustošija in Zagreb, Croatia (2015); the “Art for Peace” International Art Exhibition in the Gallery of Artists Union in Yerevan, Armenia (2015); the “Textile Art of Today” International Triennial of Textile: Slovak National Museum – Historical Museum in Slovakia (2015); the Museum of History in Bielsko-Biała, Poland (2015); the Rómer Flóris Müvészeti és Történeti Museum in Györ, Hungary (2015); the Moravian Museum in Uherské Hradiště, the Czech Republic (2015); the “Z krosna do Krosna” 9th International Artistic Linen Cloth Biennial in the Museum of Crafts in Krosno, Poland – debutant category (2016); the “Boško Petrović” 12th Assembly of International Colony for Tapestry Artists, Novi Sad, Serbia (2016); the “Teacher and Student” 1st International Symposium of Art Textile, Lviv, Ukraine – 1st Prize in textile design category (2017); the 6th International Triennial of Textile, Novi Sad, Serbia (2017); and the ”Z Cyklu Bałkańskiego” solo exhibition during the 9th International Artistic Linen Cloth Biennial in the Museum of Crafts, the Piwnica PodCieniami Gallery in Krosno, Poland in 2017. He loves travelling and visiting interesting places.
Motto: Wszystko jest uzasadnione, jeśli pochodzi z odpowiedniego stanu umysłu i świadomości