mixed technique (oil, acrylic, collage, pen, charcoal), canvas; 270.5 x 119.5 cm;
signed, dated and described on the back: THE KRASNALS / Brother in arms / Last Super / 2009 / "Artist" and "MADONNA - MADZIONNA" / 2009 /WHIELKI KTASNAL, next to blue stamp: TK [initial tied under crown].
EXHIBITED:
- Skwer, Warsaw, 2009, (together with an auction for the Center for Education, Rehabilitation and Care of the Society of Friends of Children "Helenów")
- "I felt the cramps of your esophagus", City Gallery, Wroclaw, 2016, (Reproduced in the exhibition catalog).
A group of anonymous artists associated with the critical art current initiated in the 1990s. In their creative activities they comment on reality, current political and social events and often mainstream events related to contemporary art or pop culture. Their works are not without ambiguous humor, sometimes also irony. Nonetheless, the purpose of The Dwarnals Group's activities is to highlight the events and topics that bother them, without explicitly declaring which side of the depicted event they stand on. In addition to their artistic activities, The Dwarnals express themselves extensively on the blog they run. The painting "Madonna - Madzionna" refers to Madonna's first concert in Poland, which took place on August 15, 2009.
In the same year, The Krasnals Group, which includes: Wielki Kra- snal, Dwarf Halabala 1 and 2, Dwarf Banksy and collaborating painters, was nominated for the Polityka Passports. At the time, their painting was used in an installation by Piotr Uklański presented at the Tate Modern. In 2011, the first issue of the Art Police Gazette was published and premiered at the Venice Art Biennale. In 2012, their monumental work "Battle of Grunwald / Ship of Fools" was created. The works of The Krasnals Group can be found in the collections of, among others: MOCAK - Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Silesian Museum in Katowice, Museum of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
The declaration of The Krasnals Group:
"As provocateurs of culture, we prove the hypocrisy, hypocrisy, mechanisms of power prevailing in it. We criticize the reduction of art to political propaganda, the creation of the spectacle of art and stripping it of its authenticity."
(compiled from: tkekrasnals.blogspot.pl)
