Wilhelm sasnal

Oil on canvas; 45 x 50 cm. Wilhelm Sasnal was born in Tarnów, Poland, in 1972. He studied architecture for two years at the Polytechnic, Kraków, beginning in 1992, and then became a painting student at the Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie, Kraków. While there, he helped form an artist's collective that exhibited together as the Ładnie Group until 2000. Ironically named after the Polish word meaning "pretty" or "nice," the members made paintings of their contemporary, often banal…

Multi-disciplinary artist Wilhelm Sasnal explores contemporary visual culture by working with found images sourced from newspapers, magazines, and the internet. Sasnal’s paintings juxtapose broad swirling brush strokes with precise, flatly rendered details. Abstracted landscapes surround small human and animal figures in limited color palettes. Although the artist frequently works in oil on canvas, his work alsoContinue reading "Swirling Gestural Marks Create Cinematic Scenes by Painter…

This exhibition opens with Wilhelm Sasnal's recent works referencing world events and the artist’s extensive travels before returning to Pop-inspired work.

Untitled by Wilhelm Sasnal

Untitled by Wilhelm Sasnal

Wilhelm Sasnal (Polish, b. 1972), Untitled, 2018. Oil on linen, 280 x 200 cm.

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At the exhibition will be shown paintings from the last few years, loaned from the artist's studio and from private collections in Poland and abroad. Their themes demonstrate the major contexts of Sasnal's work, raising themes such as the merging of pre-war modernism with autobiographic elements, years of struggle and war or the various contexts of post-war life, the time of the Polish People's Republic and the contemporary moment.