Wilhelm Sasnal
° 1972
Lives in Tarnów (PL), born in Tarnów (PL).
Wilhelm Sasnal uses a wide variety of media to picture his country and its surroundings. He paints, takes photographs, makes videos and installations and is active as cartoonist and video and film director. His oeuvre is very extensive and varied. Sasnal's inspirations are very diverse. He starts from daily reality in its widest possible variety: his environment and the images that 'come to him' are central. His image material consists of photographs of himself and his friends, film stills, newspaper clippings, children's books and television images. He manipulates the images he selects, until a new image emerges. In his work, you always feel the tension between apparent reference to reality and strong subjective vision. The reality Sasnal shows is often bitter. It's often in that lucidity that the strength of his work lies.
Works
>Wilhelm Sasnal, My Father's Room, 2000.Film, oil, canvas, 62.3 x 79.3 cm.
>Wilhelm Sasnal, Killing an Arab, 2002.Video, dvd, videoband, 00:04:35 min.
>Wilhelm Sasnal, Untitled (Gwangju-set), 2002.Drawing, paper, ink.
>Wilhelm Sasnal, Sea Mines II, 2002.Painting, oil, canvas, 32.2 x 30 cm.
>Wilhelm Sasnal, Sea Mines I, 2002.Film, oil, canvas, 40.5 x 40 cm.
>Wilhelm Sasnal, Tick Tock, 2018.Multiple, linocut on paper with white borders, Print size: 48 x 40 cm - Paper size: 50 x 70 cm.
>Wilhelm Sasnal, Untitled, 2020.Multiple, 4 x (100 x 70 cm).
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: The Collection XIII – LUZ (Intervention and Composition by Carla Arocha). 25 November 2005 - 12 November 2006.
> Exhibition: The Collection XIV – Spring 2006. 25 February 2006 - 23 April 2006.
> Exhibition: The collection XVI – Attributen en Substantie. 25 August 2006 - 12 November 2006.
> Exhibition: The collection XX: Jubilee. Who's got the Big Picture?. 29 June 2007 - 18 November 2007.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: When Faith Moves Mountains. 17 July 2022 - 09 October 2022.
> Exhibition: Worth Fighting For. 14 November 2022 - 14 December 2022.
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> Ensemble: Addressing Memory.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Wilhelm Sasnal.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: Surface as Depth.
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> Ensemble: The Primacy of the Everyday.
> Ensemble: Worth Fighting For.