Wilhelm Sasnal
Airplanes
2001, Oil on Canvas
150 x 300cm |
Sasnal
approaches painting as a formal exercise. He often borrows
subjects from art history, twentieth-century propaganda, and
photojournalism. Airplanes is a dark appropriation of Alighiero
Boetti's famous airplane drawings. Subverting the original
pastoral optimism, Sasnal's planes are engulfed in smoke as
if they've been hit by enemy fire.
Sasnal deconstructs the hierarchy of 'high culture' by filtering
it through mass-media association. Through painting, Sasnal
explores his own interpretation and understanding of imagery.
His work constantly questions the space between ‘personal'
and ‘public', and strives to define individual experience
within a world order of collective consciousness. |