'Untitled (a)', Wilhelm Sasnal

Artwork details

Artist

Wilhelm Sasnal (born 1972)

Title

Untitled (a)

Bez tytolo (a)

Date 2004

MediumOil paint on canvas

Dimensionssupport: 1400 x 1400 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by Tate Patrons 2004

Reference

T11915

Not on display

Summary

Sasnal is a contemporary Polish artist who has gained international recognition for his depictions of day-to-day life in a society in transition to a market-based economy. He has worked in different media including drawing, film and photography but he is best known as a painter. He is highly prolific, having produced several hundred paintings in a diverse range of styles in the first five years of the twenty-first century. His early work was often directly representational with images sourced from photographs and consumer products. Many of these paintings incorporated text: dates, price tags and other units of measurement… (read more)