Piotr Kukla ( b. 1964), Checkmate, 2018
Acrylic and latex on mahogany plywood, 100 x 70 cm.
Purchased directly from the artist.
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Piotr Kukla (also Qkla) —painter, sculptor, arts organizer, art critic and theorist, poet. He was born in Tarnów in 1964. He graduated from the State High School of Fine Arts, the Department of Artistic Furniture Design in Tarnów, and the Kraków Academy of Pedagogy—Institute of Art, where he earned a degree in sculpture in 1989 under the guidance of Prof. Janina Jeleńska-Papp. Since 1997, he has worked at the Art Exhibitions Office in Tarnów, currently as the head of the Event Organization Department.
He creates easel and mural paintings, drawings, and comics, and writes critical essays and poetry. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions.
