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Sasnal, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Sasnal was born in 1972 in Tarnów. After studying architecture and painting at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, he has now returned to his hometown to live and work. Upon completing his studies, together with the artist group “Ładnie” (“cute”) he concentrated on directly capturing everyday objects or clichés in painting (1996-2000). This pop stance also resulted in the comic “Życie codzienne w Polsce w latach 1999-2001” (“Everyday Life in Poland, 1999-2001”), in which Sasnal captures his own life in a few lines. The works of the artist group as well as the comic book attempt to generate new images which are capable of adequately portraying a Polish society that underwent rapid change in the 1990s. Most recently, Sasnal has turned to other themes, such as the discussion of Polish attitudes during the Holocaust, the artist generation of the 1970s, or the music of independent bands.
For his visual material Sasnal draws on numerous sources like science, school and children’s books, magazines or television, and uses a video recorder and camera to register his journeys and the day-to-day environment in Tarnów.
In 2002 his works were shown in the exhibitions “Urgent Painting” (Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris 2002), “Painting on the Move” (Kunsthalle Basel 2002), and as an insert in the MUHKA collection holdings (Antwerp 2003). In 2003 he had his first solo exhibition, parallel in the Kunsthalle Zurich and the Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster.
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Wilhelm Sasnal was born in 1972 in Tarnów. After studying architecture and painting at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, he has now returned to his hometown to live and work. Upon completing his studies, together with the artist group “Ładnie” (“cute”) he concentrated on directly capturing everyday objects or clichés in painting (1996-2000). This pop stance also resulted in the comic “Życie codzienne w Polsce w latach 1999-2001” (“Everyday Life in Poland, 1999-2001”), in which Sasnal captures his own life in a few lines. The works of the artist group as well as the comic book attempt to generate new images which are capable of adequately portraying a Polish society that underwent rapid change in the 1990s. Most recently, Sasnal has turned to other themes, such as the discussion of Polish attitudes during the Holocaust, the artist generation of the 1970s, or the music of independent bands.
For his visual material Sasnal draws on numerous sources like science, school and children’s books, magazines or television, and uses a video recorder and camera to register his journeys and the day-to-day environment in Tarnów.
In 2002 his works were shown in the exhibitions “Urgent Painting” (Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris 2002), “Painting on the Move” (Kunsthalle Basel 2002), and as an insert in the MUHKA collection holdings (Antwerp 2003). In 2003 he had his first solo exhibition, parallel in the Kunsthalle Zurich and the Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster.
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