Take a Kodak with You
2012 · Linoleum cut
composition: 16 3/4 x 11 3/4" (42.5 x 29.8 cm); sheet: 21 x 14 15/16" (53.3 x 37.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Wilhelm Sasnal
1972
Tarnów, Poland
PaintingContemporary
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19
Works in Collection
61
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3
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Wilhelm Sasnal is a Polish painter and filmmaker whose work spans comic-book influenced graphic flatness, photorealist surface, and loose gestural passages within a single body of work. His canvases move between history, mass media imagery, and everyday life, often derived from photography, film stills, or press images. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has been a consistent presence in major European institutional contexts. The compression of source imagery into paint, often stripping color or flattening space, gives his pictures a quality of distance and unease.
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Sadie Coles HQ
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Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
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