CULTURE BECAME SO BORING

"CULTURE BECAME SO BORING / Polish Minister of Culture Piotr Gliński, and Minister of Science and Higher Education Jarosław Gowin / from the Great Poles series"

The Krasnals. 2016. Acrylic on paper. 35 x 85 cm

Great Poles continued

The Krasnals Whielki Krasnal "Krystyna Pawłowicz / from the series Great Poles"

The Krasnals Whielki Krasnal "Andrzej Stasiuk /from the series Great Poles"

Muammar Gaddafi is dead

Frightening pictures!
Gaddafi dead pictures!
Deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi of Libya


The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal "Brothers in Arm - Revolutionaries /Muammar Gaddafi / Alexander Lukashenko / Hosni Mubarak". 2011. Oil on canvas. Excerpt of big painting.

Key words: Аляксандр Рыгоравіч Лукашэнка ,مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي‎ ,محمد حسني سيد مبارك‎

Zenek's cultural life

The Krasnals "Zenek's cultural life, ordinary Pole / from Great Poles".

I'm Zenek. I'm tollerant

The Krasnls. Whielki Krasnal "I'm Zenek. I'm tollerant. / from Great Poles". 2011. Oil on board.

Zenek - ordinary pole, from "Great Poles"

The Krasnls. Whielki Krasnal "Zenek - ordinary pole / from Great Poles". 2011. Oil, sheet metal.

Funeral of my parents Peter and Paul

The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal "Funeral of my parents Peter and Paul / from "Great Poles / according to Maurizio Cattelan". 2011. Oil on board. 38 x 60 cm

GENERAL Anda Rottenberg: Piece of art doesn't arise with intention to offend somebody. It shows the problem.

The Krasnals / painter from Krupówki “General Anda Rottenberg” / from “The Great Poles”. 2011. Oil on board. 70 x 60 cm

"People say that in area of visual arts she has stolen the biggest amount of money."

It is also told that in present tenses for some formations The Order of the White Eagle and Red star are identity.

"Piece of art doesn't arise with intention to offend somebody. It shows problem."
Anda Rottenberg

Keywords: The Order of the White Eagle, Wojciech Jaruzelski, General, Anda Rottenberg, Bronisław Komorowski

LADY GAGA in Poland

The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal
"- How it is?
- It is like this. I'm interested in the condition of contemporary woman./
LADY GAGA in Poland / from the Great Poles series"
2010. Oil on canvas. 41 x 41 cm


(the dialog comes from the titles of exhibitions by Miroslaw Balka in Tate Modern "How it is" and Maciej Maciejowski in National Gallery in Cracow "It's like this")
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Lady Gaga in Poland

The Krasnals. Big Dwarf "I love Poland / Lady Gaga from 'The Great Poles' series". 2010. Acrylics on canvas. 54 x 65,5 cm

Lady Gaga - concert
When:

11/26/2010

Where:

Hala GdañskGdansk, POLAND

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Super Team The Krasnals on Mediations Biennale 2010

Super Team The Krasnals on Mediations Biennale 2010 - on the invitation of Japanese curator Tsutomu Mizusawa.
The biggest contemporary art biennale in Poland

The KRASNALS: TWO YEARS OF STRUGGLE
Galeria Szyperska, Poznań / 11.09.-10.10. 2010
Curator: Ewelina Jarosz


http://www.mediations.pl/The_KRASNALS_TWO_YEARS_OF_FIGHT-354

The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
http://www.moma.pref.kanagawa.jp/en/museum/index.html




A brief history of our participation in the Biennale:

Well, in early spring we got an invitation from the main curator of the exhibition at the Biennale - Beyond Mediations - Mizusawa Tsutomu (Yokohama Triennial Director Deputy Director of MOMA in Kamakura and Hayama in Japan) to participate in the exhibition. Curator in the mail shed light on the situation in which he discovered that our position in the Polish art world and negative attitude of the majority of the representatives of the mainstream, are a key example and an essential link for the overall design concept of the exhibition. He suggested that we prepare a big presentation as a separate exhibition at the Gallery Szyperska, and the whole concept of care has a curator Ewelina Jarosz. The exhibition's title "Two years of struggle" describes our current point where we are, as we fight for the abolition of barriers and creating equal opportunities for all artists - from the BEYOND position.

The intention of the Japanese curator of the title “Beyond” is intended to mean that only art can bridge gaps that exist between people. Because sometimes the gaps may reach too far to be mediated by any means. Our case shows that such gaps also exist in the art, among the builders, the initiators of the construction of bridges.
Tsutomu Mizusawa also was interested in our project carried out in China. Zone of the art market has highlighted the existing divisions of social class, and the sincere, close contact with the Chinese artist, the contractor of a series of Sasnal copies, was only a quickly passing by moment.
Continuing the tradition of officially brotherly nations, the Chinese artist, has painted for us a few images of Great Poles - Copernicus, Chopin, Mickiewicz. At first glance, they highlight the relationship, friendship, brotherhood and a common dialogue of cultures of our countries. Under portraits appear Chinese signatures of Polish heroes. These characters are somehow important and known generally for Chinese people. But for the Chinese artist, their faces are anonymous and the only value is a possibility to earn a few cents on painting the portraits.

The Chinese series of copies of Sasnal paintings and a series of Chinese Great Poles are a separate presentation at the Biennale.
Tsutomu Mizusawa explains that Without doubt, art is the most sophisticated cultural medium created by human, and only art will be able to lead us beyond the distance. Our Chinese project is following exactely this idea. And its culmination is a video, during which the Dwarf is trying to overthrow the Great Chinese Wall. Video is also presented in the second part of the biennial - "Ereased Walls". Once again it shows the gap and the difference between the ability to overthrow some walls and impossibility to move others. At this show there is much talk about the effects of the overthrow of the Berlin wall 20 years ago, which was dividing Europe. It is the reason for pride and joy, however, it is far to the dream of freedom and equal opportunities for all. Finally, the overthrow of the wall is not the end of the divisions, but the beginning - of building bridges.

During the opening The Krasnals will take a speech and present the current statement. After that will make a performance which is to highlight the place of the contemporary artist, who found himself unexpectedly in the area BEYOND.

We kindly invite you to the official opening!
Saturday, September 11, at 1:00 pm

The KRASNALS: TWO YEARS OF STRUGGLE
Galeria Szyperska, Szyperska 2 Street, Poznań / 11.09.-10.10. 2010
Curator: Ewelina Jarosz

It has been more than years since the collective of anonymous artists, The Krasnals, has been active on the Polish artistic scene. On this occasion Szyperska Gallery organized the exhibition “Two Years of Struggle”. The group’s work mainly consists of painting, video, actions and word. It`s activity is of artistic, political and social importance, but mainly it concentrates on commenting current events, being a critique of the art market and the ideologies accompanying art production. The Krasnals employ the strategy of culture jamming. In a radical and ironic way they expose manipulation and hypocrisy: an artist, to make it in the so-called artworld or mainstream, sacrifices his/her independence and becomes a mouthpiece for catchy, conformist ideas and a creator of hot, easily marketable topics. Interestingly enough, pictures by The Krasnals are not respected by some critics because of their political and not painterly character, which is a sign of the misunderstanding of the meaning of their work.




The Krasnals. Chinese painter "Cheap Sasnals from China" 2008. Acrylic on canvas. 9 pieces, unlimited number of possible copies, all very cheap.

For example, the first image has important background - the Sasnal original version shows TV factory straight from the PRL, communistic Polish reality. This subject is rather historical and obsolete in the current reality, but very current for the situation in China. On the picture, Chinese painter even instinctively painted slanting eyes of factory workers.


The Krasnals. Chinese painter "Great Poles/ Adam Mickiewicz / Fryderyk Chopin / Mikołaj Kopernik" 2008. Acrylic on canvas

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Fighting for the cross at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw

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SURREALISTIC PAINTING - "Dream caused by Flight of the Tupolev around the Presidential Palace in Warsaw a Second Before Awakening / Portrait of Ordinary Pole - Great Poles series."


The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal "Dream caused by Flight of the Tupolev around the Presidential Palace in Warsaw a Second Before Awakening / Portrait of Ordinary Pole - Great Poles series." 2010. Oil on canvas. 70 x 50 cm

The soul of the marionette is a wooden cross, with strings attached. Animator, depending on the presentation of the concept may be visible, or the contrary. Marionette is manipulated from platform located above the stage, the animator is often dressed in a black costume. Then on a black background only moving doll can be seen . It is often used during playing obscene, street scenes.
In our times Polish people demand longer and longer and more complex shows. It presents, therefore, like nowhere else in the world, the serial presentations of marionettes lasting for days and nights ...


Salvador Dali "Christ of Saint John of the Cross" 1951. Oil on canvas. 205 cm × 116 cm (fragment)


Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (Corpus Hypercubus ou Crucifixion) 1954, by Salvador Dali, Oil on canvas 194.5 x 124cm


Salvador Dali "Crucifixion - Christ of Gala"
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Bronisław Komorowski - new president of Poland

The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal "Object of our contemplation / Bronisław Komorowski, from the series Great Poles". 2010. Oil on canvas. 40 x 60 cm
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Art-Box - MMA - KSW 12 Pudzianowski vs. Najman 11.12.2009

... I want to give you so much...!!!
... loving you...
...I want you to have me.
(text comes from the Polish hit by Agnieszka Chylinska)


The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal „I can't forget you – will destroy you now / Agnieszka Chylińska vs Mariusz Pudzianowski vs Marcin Najman / Great Poles series”. 2009. Oil on canvas. 100 x 130 cm



fragments:

KSW 12 Pudzianowski vs. Najman 11.12.2009

Pudzianowski vs. Najman
The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal "Dawaj na ring! Zaraz cię zniszczę! Bu! Bu! Bu! Bu! / KSW 12 Pudzianowski vs. Najman 11.12.2009 / z cyklu Whielcy Polacy". 2009. Olej na płycie. 40 x 40 cm

Pudzianowski vs. Najman

The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal "Dawaj na ring! Zaraz cię zniszczę! Bu! Bu! Bu! Bu! / KSW 12 Pudzianowski vs. Najman 11.12.2009 / z cyklu Whielcy Polacy / cz. II". 2009. Oil on hardboard. 50 x 50 cm

I DESTROY YOU NOW!

The Krasnals. Krasnal Bansky "...Now Polish girls prefer Polish guys / Mariusz Pudzianowski / Whielcy Polacy". 2009. Akryl na płycie. 55 x 46 cm

Krasnal Hałabała "Polish girls prefer French guys / Jean Reno / Whielcy Polacy". 2008. Akryl, olej na płótnie. 45 x 55 cm

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

The Krasnals



Whielki Krasnal „Disabled Santa Claus ‘dridving’ with the sack full of gifts / from the Great Poles series”. 2008. Oil on canvas. 53 x 73 cm

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

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