Wilhelm Sasnal is a modern Polish painter with an new exhibition of his works in London. That prompted an article in today's Guardian.
Suicide bombers, mosh pits, anti-folk hero Daniel Johnston and communist propaganda: the paintings of Wilhelm Sasnal draw on many influences. His subject matter comes from the mass media, in particular music (his first love), but politics is never far behind.
Born in Poland in 1972, Sasnal paints in a variety of traditions, darting between pop art and photorealism, cubism and comics so variously that you could be forgiven for thinking they were by different people. Yet all of them focus on the artist's attempts to release, or even democratise, familiar images.
Born in Poland in 1972, Sasnal paints in a variety of traditions, darting between pop art and photorealism, cubism and comics so variously that you could be forgiven for thinking they were by different people. Yet all of them focus on the artist's attempts to release, or even democratise, familiar images.
When critics wrote of the jazz great Miles Davis they often noted the economy of his music; that Davis could express so much emotion and passion with so little content. For me, that same kind of spareness is present in Wilhelm Sasnal's work.
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