A bit of national 'prywata'

'Prywata' - 'Jobbery'. English version does not give away that strong emotional nearly rude feel to the notion. Today it's 2859th day since I first came to London. Very often submarged in british culture I forget how beautiful and powerful my national is but even more so how many unique and sagnificant contemporary visual artists come from my Land.

Wilhelm Sasnal is definately one of those. What strucks me from the start are his print-a-like painting style and the subject metter. His 'print' painting has this modern simplicity of light-shadow game we find in Street Art stencils, the 'pop' colour scheme, comercial object representations and photography transmutations. Exploration of history( in this case Poland during comunism and transformation period) and changes in society make his ideas very close to my heart. I admire artists that are personal but yet objective observers of their enviroment.
If You want to read a bit more about Sasnal here is a link to on-line RASTER gallery where he is a resident artist:
http://www.raster.art.pl/gallery/artists/sasnal/sasnal.htm

Some Sasnal works:

Wilhelm Sasnal Man at the Control Panel 2000 Oil on Canvas 180 x 160cm

Wilhelm Sasnal Factory 2000 Oil on Canvas 101 x 101cm

Saatchi Gallery has a bit more.