bronze, glass, 26x16x16 cm, edition: 1/8, 2020 Signed on the base: "1/8 Koclęga 2020", author's hologram affixed to the base.
Born in 1968 in Zawiercie. Lives in Gliwice. He cultivates sculpture. He teaches sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, at the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice. He received his diploma in 1993. He studied in the drawing and painting studio of Prof. Jacek Rykała and the lithography studio of Prof. Adam Romaniuk. From 1994 to 1995, he worked as an assistant in the Visual Arts Department of the Faculty of Architecture at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.
He has held more than 45 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 90 group exhibitions at home and abroad.
His works have been published in more than 60 catalogs, numerous newspaper articles, television and Internet .The art quarterly FaArt devoted an entire issue to his artistic profile.
He has won numerous awards at the largest and most prestigious snow sculpture competitions, such as The Best Craetivity Award in Harbin, China ( 2014 and 2016), The Bronze Award in Harbin, China (2015),Award of Nayoro City in Nayoro, Japan (2016) and The Fourth Prize in Sapporo, Japan ( 2015 and 2017 ) Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Polish Championship in Snow Sculpture in Szklarska Poreba ( 2018 ).
