Graceland 1
2007
Oil on canvas
160 x 160 cm
An armchair, a grand piano and a curtain give rhythm to Wilhelm Sasnal’s Graceland 4. Lying on a pale yellow-greenish ground, these objects seem to float and distort the perspective. The armchair is blurred, as if its interior had been wiped with a sponge. The result is an atmosphere tinged with the unreal, like a dream or a distant memory.
Sasnal’s works are based on photographs taken from films, the press or the Internet. By treating them pictorially, he changes their meaning and puts them into a floating time. Painting thus acts as a distorting mirror of memory and subjectivity. This painting is from the Graceland series, which captures the uncertainty inherent to all perception in visual and poetic aesthetics.
Graceland 4 was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the 2009 "Mapping the Studio" show at the Palazzo Grassi.
Sasnal’s works are based on photographs taken from films, the press or the Internet. By treating them pictorially, he changes their meaning and puts them into a floating time. Painting thus acts as a distorting mirror of memory and subjectivity. This painting is from the Graceland series, which captures the uncertainty inherent to all perception in visual and poetic aesthetics.
Graceland 4 was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the 2009 "Mapping the Studio" show at the Palazzo Grassi.
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