Dimensions: 90 x 90 cm
signed and dated l.d.: 'THE KRASNALS' 2015'
signed, dated and described on the reverse: '"So, how we divide Poland this time? | Angela Merkel | Vladimir Putin' | The Krasnals / 2015 | Great Dwarf''.
Exhibited
"Whielcy Polacy", Janina Ruth Buczyńska Advocates Club, Krakow, November 2015.
"I felt the spasms of your esophagus. The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal", City Gallery, Wroclaw, 2.02-12.03.2016
"The art of equilibrium: between geometry and variation", BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Katowice, 7.02-9.03.2025
Literature
The Dwarves. Whielki Krasnal / I felt the cramps of your esophagus, exhibition catalog, City Gallery, ed. Marta Kaczmarek, Wrocław 2016, cover, pp. 66-67 (il.)
Biography
The art group was established in March 2008. Its members remain anonymous. They operate mainly through their blog. Their actions, based on provocation, are a reaction to the current social-political situation and provoke extreme evaluations. In their paintings, they refer, among other things, to Wilhelm Sasnal, who for them is a symbolic turning point, a certain peak, crossing the barrier to which the formation that directs the art market in Poland has reached. They criticize the Polish and world art market, which is shaped by a group of few people, and only the artist who conforms to the trends they create and who has the right connections can succeed in it. They believe that it is only thanks to the Internet that democracy is emerging on the Polish art market. In October 2009. Piotr Uklański used his portrait, made by The Krasnals, as part of an installation exhibited at Tate Modern. In November 2009, the group was nominated for the Polityka Passports.
