Wilhelm Sasnal
Man at the Control Panel
2000, Oil on Canvas
180 x 160cm |
Man
at the Control Panel has the design of a government-issue
poster. Through the act of painting, Sasnal divests this once
authoritative image of any sense of infused power. It becomes
merely an advertisement for banality, an explicit logo of
its own defunct politics.
Through the personal intervention of making, Sasnal promotes
a democratisation of image ownership. Through painting all
things are rendered equal. |