Wilhelm Sasnal

The Band

30 October - 23 December 2004

Zürich

The Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal (b. 1972) has gained a reputation for his usually small-sized paintings drawn from media images. His first comprehensive solo show at the Kunsthalle Zurich and the Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, along with his participation in important survey exhibitions at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris and the Kunsthalle Basel, won international acclaim and introduced the artist to a wider audience. In his first show at Hauser & Wirth, Wilhelm Sasnal will present video works and an installation as well as new paintings.

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About the Artist

Wilhelm Sasnal

Polish painter and film-maker Wilhelm Sasnal is renowned for his incongruous and quietly unsettling portrayal of our collective surroundings and history. Drawing on found images from newspapers and magazines, the Internet, billboards or his personal surroundings, Sasnal’s paintings act as an archive to the mass of sprawling images that flood...

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