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Wilhelm Sasnal "Map Trap"
Warsaw, Raster Gallery, February 29 - May 1, 2004
languages: Polish  / English 
 

Wilhelm Sasnal is an artist who consistently manifests an unusual sensitivity to the reality that surrounds us. His works are exquisite comments to the imagery we face in the artistic and political realms.

His paintings seem to ask a key question about the emotions that are elicited by images (in the realms of photography, film and painting) in our private and public lives. The artist's subjects have included spools of magnetic tape, wall sockets, supermarket and travel office leaflets, the covers of well-known record albums, photographs from geographical albums, a vacation postcard, and a painting by Jerzy Nowosielski. Sasnal's painting of a computer diskette is Poland's "black square on a white field" of the 1990s.

The artist's MAP TRAP is a project conceived especially for the Swietlica Sztuki Raster (Raster Art Room) and very much with its singular space in mind. This will not so much be an exhibition of paintings as a display of "living images" tucked into the corners of the old apartment interior. In spite of this intimate, even half-private form of presentation, the exhibit's meaning is highly political. MAP TRAP's protagonists include a school map of Poland and President George W. Bush, who Sasnal perceives as a dark character on the world's political stage and to whom he devoted a series of satirical drawings during the last year, many of which were published in "PRZEKROJ" / "CROSS-SECTION" weekly. The line that both literally and figuratively links Sasnal's artistic and political vision is borrowed from a drawing by one of Poland's exceptional avant-garde artists, Waclaw Szpakowski (1883-1973).

Wilhelm Sasnal (born 1972) studied architecture at Krakow Technical University in the years 1992-94 and went on to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1994-99. He obtained his diploma in the studio of professor Leszek Misiak in 1999. Sasnal was a co-founder of the artistic group LADNIE / PRETTILY, and in 1999 took the Grand Prix at the 34. OGOLNOPOLSKI KONKURS MALARSTWA "BIELSKA JESIEN" / 34TH "BIELSKO AUTUMN" POLISH NATIONAL PAINTING COMPETITION in Bielsko-Biala. During the past year, the artist has exhibited at the Kunsthalle in Zurich and the Kunstverein in Münster, and witnessed the publication of NIGHT DAY NIGHT, the first book devoted to his work. He is one of the best-known Polish artists in the world.

Exhibition opening: February 28, 2004.

Swietlica Sztuki Raster
ul. Hoza 42 m. 8, Warszawa
raster.art.pl

More about Wilhelm Sasnal: see also THE SAATCHI GALLERY web page www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk.

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