Wilhelm SASNAL (b. 1972), 64 m2, 32 m2, 9 m2 - triptych, 2000 / 2001

oil, canvas, 69 x 90 cm, 42 x 50 cm, 31 x 31 cm;
Signed and dated on the back: WILHELM SASNAL 2000 [or 2001] (in marker).

PROVENANCE:
-Purchased directly from the artist;
- Private collection, Poland.

Wilhelm Sasnal, committed artist,
painter, draughtsman, filmmaker making productions
short and feature-length films together with his wife Anka,
creator of comic books. Initially, he studied architecture
at the Cracow University of Technology. Then
studied painting at the Cracow Academy of
Fine Arts, where he received his diploma in 1999
year in the atelier of Prof. Leszek Misiak. Co-founder of
Ładnie group, in which he was active together
with Rafał Bujnowski, Marcin Maciejowski
and Marek Firk. Associated with the Warsaw-based Foundation
Foksal Gallery, Raster Gallery and Krytyka
Polityczna. Most important for him
for him is the choice of what he paints,
That is, what he has an
emotional attitude. Sasnal also draws
inspiration from mass culture,
socio-political events,
Poland's history, its identity
or the collective memory of its citizens.
The artist paints quickly using
synthetic form at times
simplifying it to a graphic
sign.