What is Polish painter Wilhelm Sasnal’s advice for young, up-and-coming artists? What would he do if he didn’t do what he does? Is his favourite literary hero from a comic book? Let’s find out.
Becoming an adult, I already knew contemporary German painting, so I can, with confidence, point to Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. They remain very important artists for me.
I could be an architect.
I love my profession so much, the nature of it, the autonomy of it, that I really have nothing to envy. OK, maybe I am envious of the writer’s ability to verbally form feelings and thoughts.
Tytus de Zoo [of Tytus, Romek and A’Tomek by Papcio Chmiel] and Stanisław Wokulski [of The Doll by Bolesław Prus]. Although, I should probably double-check, I haven’t read the latter in a long time.
The inability to stop working and being a hostage of doing useful things.
In my fourth year of university, I sold a painting for 1500zł.
The Liste Art Fair Basel in 2002 [after which Sasnal was invited to participate in a number of group and solo exhibitions, at i.e. the Kunsthalle in Zurich, which ended up jumpstarting his international career].
Personal stories, and when they relate to art, music or literature, I sometimes cry. Recently, I’ve also been very taken with this little dog we rescued from the pound a few months ago.
Nuclear war, fascism and Polish Catholic stupidity.
To be uncompromising and to work as if there was no art market.