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Wilhelm Sasnal Untitled Print, 2011

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Wilhelm Sasnal is one of the most celebrated artists to emerge from Eastern Europe in the twenty-first century. His practice embraces drawing, film, comics (his strips are regularly published in Machina and Przekroj, two Polish periodicals) and, above all, painting. Prolific, varied and deliberately unclassifiable, Sasnal channels the enigma of our contemporary image-based society. For him, ‘art is largely a mystery [that] touches upon the invisible, the unnamed.’ His painting draws together Pop, photorealism, abstraction, minimalism and photorealism to describe both banal and enchanted details of day-to-day reality, placing diverse subjects on a plane of equality. His key subjects, however, which he returns to again and again, are the possibilities and limits of representation. In his work, material and image swap places, crossing and recrossing the border between depiction and abstraction, often several times in a single canvas. His work in every medium involves a process of absorbing, saturating, materializing and then moving on to the next subject. At any given moment he has a pile of images waiting in his studio and in his head. In his exhibitions, we catch excerpts or glimpses of the greater whole of his attempt to create an encyclopaedia of the visual world, a project in which no detail is insignificant. His films show a similar range to his paintings, from their modest beginnings as unedited 8-millimetre shorts to the 35-millimetre feature film Fallout (2010). Seen as a whole, his practice raises fundamental and evergreen questions about the value of images and art, the nature and possibilities of painting and film, the intertwined relation of our subjectivity to cultural identity, and the ways we address what we experience in life in parallel to the mediated world of images. Linotype on paper Print size: 550 x 450 mm (21 5/8 x 17 3/4 inches). Image size: 410 x 360 mm (16 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches). Print folder: 600 x 500 mm (25 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches). Printed in 2011 in an edition of 100 plus 5 artist's proofs. All copies are signed and numbered by Wilhelm Sasnal.
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    Height: 21.63 in (54.95 cm)Width: 17.75 in (45.09 cm)Depth: 0.001 in (0.03 mm)
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    2011
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    New York, NY
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    Seller: 97807148646861stDibs: LU187834494603

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