Sea Mines I, 2002
Film, 40.5 x 40 cm.
© Wilhelm Sasnal. Image: M HKA
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK007342).
Yellow, rather strange shapes balance in these two paintings on a sort of palisade against a black background. The images seem abstract, but at the same time are reminiscent of landscapes. It is the title that brings clarity: these are sea mines. Wilhelm Sasnal starts with elements drawn from reality and transforms them into new images. They may be usual, everyday images, or equally they may be (literally) loaded images as the case with these mines. His subjects are often isolated, they float in a void. It seems like they’ve been interrupted, as though their movement was suddenly halted and they are now waiting for a sequel. Wilhelm Sasnal’s visual language is raw and creates unease. His subjective view of the world brings reality closer. Via his utterly personal stance, reality comes over as sharp and clear in the crosshairs. His works hover between an evident reference to reality on the one hand, and his own subjective reality on the other.
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> Wilhelm Sasnal.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: The Collection XIII – LUZ (Intervention and Composition by Carla Arocha) – Winter 2005-06. MuHKA, Antwerpen, 25 November 2005 - 12 November 2006.
> Exhibition: The collection XX: Jubilee. Who's got the Big Picture?. MuHKA, Antwerpen, 29 June 2007 - 18 November 2007.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: The Collection XIV – Spring 2006. MuHKA, Antwerpen, 25 February 2006 - 23 April 2006.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: Addressing Memory.
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> Ensemble: Surface as Depth.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Wilhelm Sasnal.
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>Wilhelm Sasnal, Sea Mines II, 2002.Painting, oil, canvas, 32.2 x 30 cm.