Wilhelm Sasnal: family / history

From Sadie Coles HQ Savile Row

Wilhelm Sasnal’s exhibition of new paintings at Sadie Coles HQ is titled family / history , a title intended to capture the duality of content in Sasnal's intertwined subject matter, activating with equal energy images from life at home and current affairs. Intimate, affectionate portraits of the artist's interior life and family reappear in his work. But any family history exceeds the comfort of the domestic and sits within a bigger sphere of politics and culture which can shape, expand,...