Welcome to the Paradise

UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 14)
1-12 December 2008 , Poznań, Poland

The Governor of California - Arnold Schwarzenegger - is the kind of real hero, prince present at the conference in Poznan. The event is like the fairy tale for this not so known city and Arnold is its hope and the main symbol. Apart the ecology problems this is a wonderful chance for promotion of Poznan.

Krasnal Bansky „Welcome to the Paradise / Arnold Schwarzenegger / The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2008 / from the series Great Poles”. 2008. Akcrylic on canvas. 60 x 90 cm

We don't know if there will be some crucial results after this summit, but we appeal the fight for economy development and protection of own interests not dominate over the main aim which is the protection of our planet!

Laureates of Nobel Peace Prize present at the conference are the world’s peace symbols – peace that can be easily disturbed by climate changes. Water shortages, disappearing of lands under the water, limiting the surface of cultivation land, potential conflict arising from the Arctic thawing which will see countries having an interest making territorial claims – all these aspects profoundly impact international security and can provoke humanitarian disasters or wars.

“The most appropriate way of viewing climate change is as a threat multiplier: it aggravates the stresses and strains within and between countries. Climate change threatens to overburden those countries and regions that are already fragile and conflict-prone. The critical variable is governance. How governments will respond to the impacts of climate change depends on how well they resolve conflicts today. “Javier Solana

Just to continue this thought, Beijing has postponed a European Union-China summit following the European leaders' contacts with the Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama. China is against meeting Nicolas Sarkozy with Dalai Lama on 6th December in Gdansk in Poland, on the occasion of 25th anniversary of awarding the Peace Nobel Prize for Lech Wałęsa.



Whielki Krasnal „We want to love the World: We love EU (Nicolas Sarkozy), We want to love China (Wen Jiabao), Nature is the answer (Dalai Lama) / The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2008 / from the series Great Poles”. 2008. Oil on canvas. Triptych: 60 x 50 cm, 60 x 50 cm, 50 x 70 cm

We ask the questions:

Will Brazil, China and India take the initiative and join the international talks about the climate? What position will the USA take in the situation of recession?
What rules will oblige after 2012? Will the emissions be reduces by 50% by 2050?


Whielki Krasnal „USA…? / Al Gore / The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2008 / from the series Great Poles”. 2008. Oil on canvas. 46 x 55 cm

Krasnal Hałabała “Let always there will be a sun / Wangari Maathai / The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2008 / from the series Great Poles”. 2008. Oil on canvas. 60 x 50 cm

Krasnal Hałabała “So I’m Arnold / Lech Wałęsa / The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2008 / from the series Great Poles”. 2008. Oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm

‘Welcome to the Paradise’

'Superman for Earth' 3/93

Painting of Whielki Krasnal at the charity auction in Cracow

Whielki Krasnal "300 miles to Heaven". 2008. Oil on canvas. 100 x 150

Just on Saturday there will be the auction 'Wielkie Serce' (Big Heart), where the painting of Whielki Krasnal '300 miles to Heaven' will be offered.
It is exhibited already at the Manggha Museum in Cracow.

For the first time in Poland the painting created by The Krasnals will be shown for the public.

The auction will take place on 22nd of November at 5pm
THE "MANGGHA" CENTRE OF JAPANESE ART AND TECHNOLOGY in Cracow, Poland
led by Andrzej Starmach
Guest of the evening - the actress Anna Dymna

We declare, that the charity activity for children will be the permanent one led by The Krasnals. As the 'Krasnals' - gnomes - we naturally take care about the children.
Paintings destined for the auctions will concern the subject connected with children.

'300 miles to Heaven' comes from the Polish movie which is the shocking story of two boys living in communistic reality before 1989. The story is based on facts. Brothers decide to run away from Poland to Sweden, to better world. They hide below the track.
This is the picture of great desire, but the price is high - they became separated from their parents.
At the other hand this is the symbol of real revolution, risk, taken by children.

More info about the auction:
at the site of the association Wielkie Serce:
www.wielkieserce.pl/index2.php?m=aukcje

Auction's catalogue at the artinfo.pl:
www.artinfo.pl/?lng=1&lngcode=pl&(�)obj=1

I just need the light of Love here!!!

These photos refer to the opening of the exhibition of Yoko Ono in Warsaw CCA in September 2008, her performance 'Onochord' with flashlights and the art work 'My Mummy was beautiful'.
This event elicited among us different reflections. One concerns Love directed to neighbours, the second one brings the feministic accent to our krasnals society.

At the opening the light of love sent by Yoko Ono didn't get to the place that I needed it. Fortunately I took it home with me.
I am a mother, after my 30s, I like sex and as most women I need it. But I feel some imbalance in treating or presenting us as mechanical objects. Some parts of the body if they appear publicly, they are shown like sexual objects of desire, or opposite - without respect, in vulgar way. And I need just adoration; our genitals need the same love - also spiritual - as our souls and hearts.


Sleeping Beauty “I am a beautiful Mummy! – I love you my pussy!”. 2008. Photography / frame from the private performance in front of the mirror.


Sleeping Beauty “I am a beautiful Mummy! – I love you my pussy!”. 2008. Photography / frame from the private performance in front of the mirror.

Yoko Ono - I love you / Catholic voice at your home

The message "I love you" sent by Yoko Ono at her opening in Warsaw in September, as well as other spiritual suggestions, were just repetition from the hippie times, with no power today. They rather would be situated in the context of Polish Catholic fanaticism represented by its leader father Rydzyk. Yoko Yono keeps the fleshlight and sends the light to the public as to the worshippers of father Rydzyk.

Whielki Krasnal „Must kill this Love / Great Poles – Yoko Ono”. 2008. Oil on canvas. 114 x 130 cm


Krasnal Hałabała „I love you / Catholic voice at your home / Great Poles – father Rydzyk plus cattle”. 2008. Acrylic on canvas. 50 x 70 cm

Polish girls prefer French guys

Krasnal Hałabała "Serve the People / Ryszard Kalisz / Great Poles". 2008. Acrylic on canvas. 55 x 45 cm


Krasnal Hałabała "Polish girls prefer French guys / Jean Reno / Great Poles". 2008. Acrylic, oil on canvas. 45 x 55 cm

Krasnal with Slavoj Zizek in Miami

Whielki Krasnal was invited by Artoconecto and Bakehouse Arts Complex to take part in the exhibition A-B(o)MB - Art Basel (of) Miami Beach pre-Basel Showcase @ Bakehouse Arts Complex.
There is presented at the exhibition the portrait of one of the most popular philosophers among contemporary artists - Slavoj Zizek. At the painting he formulates one of his famous statements.



more info:
www.bacfl.org/events.html
artoconecto.blogspot.com/

Whielki Krasnal "Slavoy Žižek / Great Poles”. 2008. Oil on canvas. 66 x 81 cm

One of the significant statements of Zizek concerns the role of excrements in art world and replacing by them the masterpieces of art.

Whielki Krasnal „How much is worth the shit of Sasnal?” 2008. Oil on canvas. 50 x 50 cm


Whielki Krasnal „Brain wash”. 2008. Oil on canvas. 100 x 73 cm

Maria Peszek

Polish new music star Maria Peszek, provokes and enchants the audience.

Whielki Krasnal "Maria Awaria / Great Poles, Maria Peszek". 2008. Oil on canvas. 92 x 73 cm

additional titles translated from Polish songs of the artist:
"Lick me lick me, I'm Polish"
"I have a pussy"
"I have no time for sex"
"Fuck you city"
"Broth"
"Superglue"
"Toadstools"
"Women-pistols"
"Teddy bear"

Barack Obama – it’s too early for a black president!

We decided not to stay away from the topic and we painted Obama, even twice! There are rather two versions - ‘whitening’ and ‘beautifying’ the candidate for the American president.

Krasnal Bansky "I am White / Barack Obama". 2008. Oil on canvas. 70 x 60 cm

Whielki Krasnal "I'm White / Barack Obama". 2008. Oil on canvas. 30 x 22 cm

The Polish journalist wrote from Washington in a ‘Rzeczpospolita’ daily newspaper on the 22 of Sept, that ‘it’s too early for a black president’ in United States. ‘Racist prejudice of the part of white electors can finish Obama, according to new surveys.’
Let’s hope the racist state of opinion will not dominate the elections.
Good Luck!
The Krasnals support Obama!

Daily reporting on the world of Barack Obama artwork, prints and auctions:
http://www.obamaartreport.com/

Group sex with Angela Merkel

The German town of Bodman-Ludwigshafen in the far south of Germany isn't exactly a hot tourist attraction. But lately it has been a magnet for tourists armed with cameras and camcorders. The sudden fame is due to a controversial tryptich at the center of town - a work by the German sculpture, Peter Lenk.

The sculpture is called "group-sex relief" and features prominent politicians and corporate players in various states of undress and completely nude. One panel stars German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder laughing and grabbing each others private parts.

In a ‘Wprost’ weekly (on 21 of Sept) they ask; where are the boundaries of satire and the freedom of the artistic statement?
‘There are no boundaries – German politics said unanimously.’
Meanwhile, not so far from Germany, polish art critics are indignant with The Krasnals drawings.
What a difference just a border makes…

Whielki Krasnal "Go on Wili". 2008. Markers on paper
(on the drawing: Slavoj Zizek, Kuba Banasiak, Slawomir Sierakowski, Wilhelm Sasnal)

The Animal Pyramid

Whielki Krasnal "The Animal Pyramid / based on the work of Katarzyna Kozyra". 2008. Oil on canvas. 92 x 65 cm