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from the ‘Kinderzeichnungen’ series
The artist likes to evoke emotions and moods that are associated with childhood. Two pencil drawings from 1988, from the series Kinderzeichnungen (translated as ‘children’s drawings’), directly relate to this period of life. They betray the introverted, dreamy character characteristic of Rondinone while remaining rich in playful references to the history of painting. In one work, the motif of a painter turning […]
Fountain of youth
Chemitrails
On the scaffold
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Plan wystawy
The pencil drawing shown in the exhibition, Plan wystawy Exhibition Plan, demonstrates howthe artist dealt with the three fundamental tropes of his art as part of his first retrospective exhibition atthe National Museum in Krakow.
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The figure of the musician here looks like a self-portrait of the painter, reaching for the paints insteadof the musical instrument. Not without reason. Sasnal himself claimed that his adventure with paintingbegan with music or, more precisely, with redrawing heavy metal album covers in the first year oftechnical school.
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Depicting two black lines intersecting at right angles on a white background, the work presented at the Wonderful Line exhibition was the Bez Tytułu [Untitled] edition of a work dating from 2000 can be read in the context given above as a symbol of introducing new coordinates to the interpretation of history and art. Its aesthetics is already characteristic of Sasnal’s mature works. After his Pop […]
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