Wilhelm Sasnal

Born:
1972
Residence:
Tarnow, Poland
Nationality:
Polish
Trust:
APT London
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  • Because we believe that two heads are better than one, the new joint effort between Equator Production and Henzel Studio – both respected manufacturers of artist-designed carpets – is especially worth celebrating.

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  • A painter such as Wilhelm Sasnal suits our current age of political uncertainty. Sasnal is a political artist, though not a simple, didactic one.

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  • Following on the success of the first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection at Sotheby’s New York earlier this month, further artworks from the collection will be offered at Sotheby’s London Contemporary Curated sale on April 12, 2017. These include a strong selection of works by beloved British artists like Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, and Bob & Roberta Smith, as well as other international artists, at a wide range of price points, with low estimates from $1,200 (1,000 GBP) to high estimates of up to $35,000 (30,000 GBP).

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  • In this heated political climate, art for art’s sake feels ever more like an indefensible position—maybe a guilty pleasure. Even within the relative privilege of the art establishment, activist ideals are increasingly surfacing, while political statements made by artists have become de rigeur. The perennial question faced by such artist-activists is whether or not the activities performed in the rarefied world of the art exhibition and symposium can truly make an impact in the so-called “real world.” To investigate this question, we take a look at recent activist actions by international artists and current exhibitions that aim to effect material change in the world.

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  • The Polish artist and filmmaker draws on the New World explorer's darker side for his new short film.

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  • Johnen Galerie is pleased to present Wilhelm Sasnal’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition includes a new film, several new paintings and a large drawing.

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  • Even threats of a downturn in the art market due to China’s recent stock market crash could not dampen the buoyant mood among collectors, dealers, and the public who attended the newly launched Shanghai Art Week in mid September.

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  • Sadie Coles HQ is delighted to present a new installation by Hilary Lloyd, opening in Frieze Week at the gallery’s project space at 62 Kingly Street, The Shop.

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  • Art aficionados have until Saturday, 6 December, to view the Warsaw National Museum’s latest acquisitions, on show at a special exhibit titled “The Regional Collection of Contemporary Art”.

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  • As the gates of the Frieze art fair open, so to do the doors of every contemporary gallery in London – offering a veritable peacock's parade

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  • The 31st Bienal de São Paulo "Things that don’t exist” is a poetic invocation of art’s ability to create new objects, thoughts and possibilities. The sentence has a variable formula that constantly changes, anticipating the actions that might make present in contemporary life the things that don’t exist, are not recognized, or have not yet been invented. With 81 projects and more than 100 participants from 34 countries, totaling around 250 artworks on display, the exhibition has been conceived as journey through the Pavilion divided into three different areas: park area, ramp area and columns area.

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  • Two shows this week are in adjacent galleries in the new art precinct that has developed in Arch Hill. Orexart Gallery has works by Richard McWhannell

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  • As the gates of the Frieze art fair open, so to do the doors of every contemporary gallery in London – offering a veritable peacock's parade

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  • Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal’s mysterious pallid canvasses have made him the young superstar of contemporary painting. Whether he’s making portraits

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  • According to new archaeological evidence, human beings have been using paint for 100,000 years.

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  • The Herzliya Biennial includes an eclectic and eccentric array of art, theater and dance productions.

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  • If you grew up in the ’80s, like me, Soviet Europe was less an actual place than an unnervingly inscrutable concept, identifiable only by stone-faced

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  • Two small paintings of Saturn bookend the Whitechapel's major exhibition of the Polish painter Wilhelm Sasnal.

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  • Wilhelm Sasnal has achieved a level of art-world prominence that most painters today can only dream of reaching. The Polish artist is collected

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  • A new auction goer’s guide through the Phillips de Pury Contemporary Art Evening Sale, October 13, 2007...

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  • You'd have to be blind not to notice that, from a distance, Tacita Dean's commission for Tate

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  • The exhibition provides insight into Sasnal’s work from 1999 to the present. It shows more than 60 paintings and a selection of his films.

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  • The Art Dealers Association of America today announced what dealers will be showing in their booths at it annual Art Show, which runs at the Park Avenue Armory from March 6 through 10 this year.

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  • Alastair Sooke reviews solo exhibitions of work by contemporary artists Wilhelm Sasnal (four stars), Jacob Kassay (three stars), and Pipilotti Rist

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1972 in Tarnow, Poland, Wilhelm Sasnal lives and works in Kraków.

Primarily using painting and film, Sasnal engages with the contemporary crisis of representation from the particular vantage point of post-communist Poland, which was suddenly flooded with an endless stream of market-driven imagery from the West. In response to both his immediate surroundings and global visual culture at large, Sasnal depicts a diverse range of subjects, including portraits, landscapes, architecture, mass-produced objects and propagandist icons using a variety of stylistic approaches, as a means of reducing technique and genre to a level playing field. Influenced by music and history, Sasnal samples his subject matter from a range of sources both direct and mediated, thus creating a personal archive of imagery, at once autobiographical and suggestive of our elusive contemporary moment.

Sasnal`s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions among others at Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Ireland (2014); The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (2013); Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2012); Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland (Travelling Exhibition) (2010); Rochester Art Center, Rochester MN (2010); K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2009); SI Swiss Institute, New York, NY (2007). 

Wilhelm Sasnal is represented by Anton Kern Gallery, New York; the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw; Hauser and Wirth, London, Zurich and New York; Johnen Gallery, Berlin, and Sadie Coles HQ, London.


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