My Father's Room, 2002
Film, 62.3 x 79.3 cm.
©image: M HKA
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK7344_M262).
My Father’s Room, 2002 is a painting between figuration and abstraction made by Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal. Watching through the brushstrokes, which are vividly and obviously deliberately made to be seen, one sees the gradients of grey surface that may slightly evoke the convex surface of an old TV screen. But it is not, this is Sasnal's father’s room, viewed from above, as a ground-plan, and it stays disturbingly empty, giving space to the viewer’s imagination to surmise what’s inside it. A life, the life of Sasnal’s grandfather, within its limits.
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> Wilhelm Sasnal.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: The collection XVI – Attributen en Substantie. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 August 2006 - 12 November 2006.
> Exhibition: The collection XX: Jubilee. Who's got the Big Picture?. MuHKA, Antwerpen, 29 June 2007 - 18 November 2007.
> Exhibition: The collection XIII – LUZ (intervention and composition by Carla Arocha) – Winter 2005-06. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA), Antwerpen, 25 November 2005 - 12 November 2006.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: The collection XIV – Spring 2006. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 February 2006 - 23 April 2006.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: When Faith Moves Mountains. PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, 17 July 2022 - 09 October 2022.
> Exhibition: Worth Fighting For. Oskar Jager Strasse 97-99, Keulen, 14 November 2022 - 14 December 2022.
> Exhibition: Worth Fighting For. Oskar Jager Strasse 97-99, Keulen, 14 November 2022 - 14 December 2022.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: Addressing Memory.
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> Ensemble: Surface as Depth.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Wilhelm Sasnal.
> Ensemble: Worth Fighting For.
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> Ensemble: The Primacy of the Everyday.