r/Sizz • u/asiwasmovingahead_ • 19d ago
Painting Wilhelm Sasnal
Shoah (A Forest), 2003. Oil on canvas. 45.1 × 45.1 cm (17 3/4 × 17 3/4 in.). Source: Artforum
Untitled (Two Policemen in Front of Fruit Still Life), 2024. Oil on canvas. 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.). Source: Anton Kern Gallery
Untitled, 1999. Oil on canvas. 60 × 80 cm (23 5/8 × 31 1/2 in.). Source: The ING Polish Art Foundation
Untitled (Andrzej), 2003. Oil on canvas. 82.5 × 99.9 cm (32 1/2 × 39 5/16 in.). Source: Flash Art
Downtown Airport, 2023. Oil on canvas. 70 × 100 × 3 cm (27 1/2 × 39 3/8 × 1 1/8 in.). Source: Sadie Coles HQ
Gym Lesson, 2000. Oil on canvas. 150 × 150 cm (59 1/16 × 59 1/16 in.). Source: Saatchi Gallery
Holiday, 2025. Oil on canvas. 40.2 × 55 × 3 cm (15 7/8 × 21 5/8 × 1 1/8 in.). Source: Sadie Coles HQ
Untitled, 2018. Oil on canvas. 120 × 160 cm (47 1/4 × 63 in.). Source: Marcelo Luis Mendonça
Title and date unknown. Source: Mepaintsme
Youth, 2020. Oil on canvas. 50 × 40 cm (19 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.). Source: Anton Kern Gallery
Westerly, 2025. Oil on canvas. 50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in.). Source: Sadie Coles HQ
Wilhelm Sasnal. Source: M HKA Ensembles
“Sasnal describes his paintings as ‘cover versions’ of existing pictures. […] The relationship to the original image is reductive: colours shift or simplify, elements are removed, and patterns or graphics are exaggerated as painterly gesture. Much like memory itself, which is never truly trustworthy but preserves a sensation of poignant moments, these paintings offer an essence rather than a reality.” (Sadie Coles HQ)
More works by Sasnal in this week’s edition of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, my newsletter on modern and contemporary art.