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PublisherPhaidon Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100714860794
ISBN-139780714860794
eBay Product ID (ePID)109026746
Product Key Features
Book TitleWilhelm Sasnal
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicIndividual Artists / Monographs
GenreArt
AuthorJörg Heiser, Dominic Eichler, Andrzej Przywara
Book SeriesPhaidon Contemporary Artists Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight35.1 Oz
Item Length11.5 in
Item Width10 in
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Reviews"Offers a great insight into sources of [Sasnal's] inspirations and fields of interest: painting about painting, figurative painting and portraits, the history of Poland and travel shots... The book itself is a journey full of facts and intriguing perspectives on materiality and subject matter of Sasnal's paintings and his way of deconstructing the different symptoms of current times... Jam-packed with fascinating personal stories and facts from the artist's life. It also provides an insightful view of historical and contemporary perspectives on painting in pre- and post-Iron Curtain Poland. The juiciness and meatiness of Sasnal's works is successfully explored with reference to historical lineage, which is timely and culturally valuable."--Cassone On the Contemporary Artists Series "The boldest, best executed, and most far-reaching publishing project devoted to contemporary art. These books will revolutionize the way contemporary art is presented and written about."--Artforum "The combination of intelligent analysis, personal insight, useful facts and plentiful pictures is a superb format invaluable for specialists but also interesting for casual readers, it makes these books a must for the library of anyone who cares about contemporary art."--Time Out "A unique series of informative monographs on individual artists."--The Sunday Times "Gives the reader the impression of a personal encounter with the artists. Apart from the writing which is lucid and illuminating, it is undoubtedly the wealth of lavish illustrations which makes looking at these books a satisfying entertainment."--The Art Book, "Offers a great insight into sources of [Sasnal's] inspirations and fields of interest: painting about painting, figurative painting and portraits, the history of Poland and travel shots... The book itself is a journey full of facts and intriguing perspectives on materiality and subject matter of Sasnal's paintings and his way of deconstructing the different symptoms of current times... Jam-packed with fascinating personal stories and facts from the artist's life. It also provides an insightful view of historical and contemporary perspectives on painting in pre- and post-Iron Curtain Poland. The juiciness and meatiness of Sasnal's works is successfully explored with reference to historical lineage, which is timely and culturally valuable."-- Cassone On the Contemporary Artists Series "The boldest, best executed, and most far-reaching publishing project devoted to contemporary art. These books will revolutionize the way contemporary art is presented and written about."-- Artforum "The combination of intelligent analysis, personal insight, useful facts and plentiful pictures is a superb format invaluable for specialists but also interesting for casual readers, it makes these books a must for the library of anyone who cares about contemporary art."-- Time Out "A unique series of informative monographs on individual artists."-- The Sunday Times "Gives the reader the impression of a personal encounter with the artists. Apart from the writing which is lucid and illuminating, it is undoubtedly the wealth of lavish illustrations which makes looking at these books a satisfying entertainment."-- The Art Book
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromEighth Grade
Dewey Decimal759.38
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
SynopsisWilhelm 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. Sasnal was awarded the Vincent Van Gogh Prize in 2006, and his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at major museums across Europe, including the Kunsthalle Zurich, the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (MuHKA) in Antwerp. An exhibition of his work will open at London's Whitechapel Gallery in October 2011., Antonio Esposito(b.1961) is an architect who has taught at the Bari School of Architecture and the Faculty of Civic Architecture of Milan Bovisa. Giovanni Leoni (b.1958) is Professor of the History of Architecture at the University of Bari. His publications include a monograph of Fernando Távora (2005) co-written with Antonio Esposito., Wilhelm Sasnal is one of the most celebrated artists to emerge from Eastern Europe in the twenty-first century
