Wilhelm Sasnal
Landscape
2001, Oil on Canvas
36 x 40cm |
In
Landscape, a row of Eastern European houses is half obliterated
by a smoke bomb. In an image reminiscent of news clippings,
Sasnal impersonalises the violence until it becomes nothing
more than a perfect cloud. Dehumanised to the point of abstraction,
Sasnal reduces horror to a mere formalist problem: a structural
composition of terror; a self-absorbed contemplation of the
sublime. |