Silvio Berlusconi - Resignation - the end of Bunga Bunga

The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal "Silvio Berlusconi dimissioni, the end of Bunga Bunga". 2011. Oil on canvas. A fragment of bigger picture.

BERLUSCONI'S AFFAIR, BERLUSCONI QUITS, BERLUSCONI SCANDAL, RESIGMATION OF BERLUSCONI, pime minister of italy , BERLUSCONI RESIGNS, silvio berlusconi, WPADKI BERLUSCONIEGO, italy,

"Pole lifting meteorite from pope. 21:37" - release

The Krasnals at 54th Venice Biennale - Wroclaw 05.2011

Hey, hey, goodby! Killing Osama Bin Laden

The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal "Dead or alive or just propaganda. Most important - dead. God bless America! / Osama bin Laden". 2011. Oil on canvas. Fragment of a big painting.
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Egyptian revolutionary

The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal "Egyptian revolutionary 19:39". 2010. Oil on hardboard 50 x 70 cm

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EGIPT - NEFERTITI

Nefertiti
The Krasnals. "Please...! Take me back to EGYPT! / Nefertiti". 2011. Stencil, canvas. 21 x 15 cm

Nefertiti, Neues Museum, Museum Island Berlin, Hosini Mubarak, Egypt revolution
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The Krasnals exclusive interview with the queen NEFERTITI

Ready for leadership
For Nefertiti, it is a chance to shake off her image as an elitist who is out of touch after years of being abroad.
Speaking to The Krasnals reporter still being held in Neue Museum in Berlin, Nefertiti said:

“This is a critical time in the life of Egypt and I have to come to participate with the Egyptian people,"
"If people, in particular young people, ... want me to lead the transition, I will not let them down. My priority right now ... is to see a new regime and to see a new Egypt through peaceful transition."

"We're still reaching out to the regime to work with them for the process of change. Every Egyptian doesn't want to see the country going into violence," she said. "Our hand is outstretched."

"I wish that we didn't have to go to the streets to impress on the regime that they need to change," queen Nefertiti said. "There is no going back. I hope the regime stops the violence, stops detaining people, stops torturing people."

We asked Egyptians why the presence of Nefertiti is so important for them now:
"We need our beloved Queen Nefertiti to lead us to the change we want, for the regime to fall and Mubarak to leave and for a new, free Egypt to be born!"

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Egyptian Antiquities in Peril; Troops Guard Museum

That breach, on Friday night, galvanized a contingent of impassioned defenders who have pledged to keep plunderers at bay. Some have been outside the museum since word of the first attack, determined to protect the country’s cultural patrimony.

“It’s the heart of our civilization,” said thirty-two-year-old Ali Said, perspiring in the noonday heat as he stood guard outside the museum Tuesday, arms linked with those of men standing beside him. “And it’s not just for us; it belongs to the entire world.”
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Obituary of the dissident Liu Xiaobo / Coffin portrait

The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal "Obituary of the dissident Liu Xiaobo / Coffin portrait". 2010. Oil on canvas. 33 x 43 cm

Liu Xiaobo is a Chinese intellectual, writer, and human rights activist and a political prisoner in China.
During his 4th prison term, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.

Upon hearing about Liu's nomination for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, the Chinese foreign ministry warned the Nobel committee not to give Liu the prize, as they said that it would be against Nobel principles.^[51] On 8 October 2010 the Nobel Committee awarded Liu the Prize "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".^[52] The Norwegian Nobel Committee president Thorbjørn Jagland said the choice of Liu as the recipient of the prize had become clear early on in the process.^[51]

A banquet to honor Liu Xiaobo for winning the Nobel Peace Prize by 20 plus Chinese netizens, human right lawyers, and academics was abruptly broken up by Beijing police.^[61] Other meetings to commemorate the award were prevented by authorities; prominent intellectuals and other dissidents were detained, harassed or put under surveillance.^[62]

There were messages of congratulations from the world’s leaders, who called on China to reform its political, legal systems and its constitution and to release Liu. President Ma Ying-jeou of the Republic of China,^[63] He also urges Beijing government to free Liu Xiaobo and put forward political reform. ^[64]European Commission president José Manuel Barroso,^[65] The British Foreign Secretary William Hague,^[65] U.S. President Barack Obama,^[66] and the Dalai Lama were among those who praised the decision, and called for Liu's release.^[67]

There was also solidarity with the Chinese view by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.^[68]

Following the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu's wife, Liu Xia, was placed under house arrest.^[69] According to Freedom Now, she has not been charged with any offence.^[70]

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The Krasnals Voice at 4th ASEM Culture Ministers Meeting in Poznań

Below there is the necessary supplementary information for ASEM Culture Ministers Meeting - from contestation art circles, which in Poland are represented by The Krasnals art collective.

As The Krasnals art collective we are convinced that the 4th ASEM Culture Ministers Meeting in Poznań contributes significantly to a strengthening of cultural awareness among the societies of the 45 parties who participate in the dialogue of European Union and Southeast Asia. We also hope it will inspire the dialogue and the transfer of knowledge and practices, which, in turn will lead to mutual undertakings to defend and protect the cultural treasury form the threats of the contemporary art market.

There are dangers arising from the social transformations accompanying processes of globalization of high culture, especially contemporary art. We urge you to pay attention to the problem that in an interview the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski summoned. He noted that "the basic problem that now affects an area of culture in Europe and Asia (and elsewhere), is that of globalization and the flood of low quality of art as the result of interests of a narrow group of art establishment monopolizing the art market."

In the Polish Culture Minister opinion, there is vagueness and commercialization of the mainstream art, including the Polish one following global trends. So far, a certain originality and individuality, taste and style, was the domain of art. Gradually it meets with deprivation of colourfulness and multidimensionality.

One of the problems that worry us is increasingly emerging question about the need for a biennial basis. Or maybe there is a need to develop a new formula of presenting art rebelling against global trends? The activity of our collective follows the main concept of Mediations Biennale in Poznan, which this year is "Beyond" - "beyond the official, mainstream art, and an official language about it." It should be seriously initiated the debate and critic of art market sphere. We should begin to talk about prevailing of divisions, manipulation, and those unclear rules governing the art world, to reconcile its democratic ideals.

Biennale has become one of the most common and effective ways of showing art in the world. International Biennale is not just an exhibition, but mobile capital and art museum all in one. So, the question is, if an international biennial is necessary for the presence of art created locally in a transnational context? If so, what shape the Polish Biennale should take? Should the local tradition be an important element in building an international biennial? What are the consequences of thinking in terms of the presenting biennale of art - and whether it acts in favor of or against the local tradition?

The exhibition of The Krasnals "Two years of fighting" gives complete answers to these questions. It is situated in one of three main bastions of Mediations Biennial - at Szyperska Gallery (till October 10 2010).

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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Postcard from Greece

The Krasnals. Sleeping Beauty "Aqualand. Greece 2010". 2010. Acrylics on canvas. 70 x 80 cm


The Krasnals. Krasnal Hałabała "Aqualand. Greece 2010". 2010. Art object

We are on the Greek island of Thassos. Stink, filth, lack of fuel ... three days we can't get out, and Aquaparks is empty ... great!

We have imposed a frame memory of Ciechocinek and Thassos, for example, the square in front of the small hotel Sagapo, where we live. And a frame: a postcard, which we found at the white house in the village of Limenas. There was a impressing Aquapark. Underneath the inscription: "Greetings from Thassos." It made an impression on us. It looked like it was printed in Poland, somewhere in the 80s

Keywords: Greece, crisis, strikes, fuel, Rajkowska, Budny.
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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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Ash prevents leaders attending Polish funeral 18.04.2010. Great absent

The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnals "Foreign excursion to Wawel 18.04.2010. Great absent". 2010. Oil on canvas. 215 x 198 cm

A thick cloud of volcanic ash hovering above Europe prevented foreign leaders from flying to Poland on Sunday 18th at the funeral of Lech Kachinsky. Big pompous funeral took place without so many important guests. And Poland lost it's chance for a while of glory because of the ash...

Wisława Szymborska:
Komsomolskaya bright sun irradiates the whole world
Poland sends greetings today
to all the young people of the Soviet state

Margaret Thatcher:
- It is a great night. It is the end of Socialism. Don't allow tyrants and aggressors to get away with it.

Nicolas Sarkozy:
- If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country. I would like to see polar bears in Poland.

Osama bin Laden
- Thanks God for enabling me to do so!

Shimon Peres:
- Israel's economy is flourishing. Israeli business people are investing everywhere in the world. Israel has unprecedented economic success. By today, we have won economic independence and are buying up Manhattan, Poland and Hungary. I don't have to lose my time going to Poland now.

Yulia Tymoshenko and Victor Yushchenko:
- Obama and Merkel will not come... But at least will write about us at all Polish newspapers.

Barack Obama:
- I have a special tool for the dirt, but... A thick cloud of volcanic ash hovering above Europe will ground Air Force One this weekend, preventing me from flying late Saturday night to Poland.

Angela Merkel:
- hmm… I just came back from the nuclear summit in America... A process has been set in motion which will seek to contain one of the more perilous hazards of the 21st century, namely, the threat of nuclear fuel falling into the hands of terrorists... I wish I could rest a bit.

Yasser Arafat:
- Are you asking me while I am under complete siege?

Jose Barroso:
- As president, he had enormous challenges and difficult mandates, but he certainly brought East and West closer together and helped replace confrontation by cooperation.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen
- That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.

Dmitry Medvedev
- That means exactly what I said that we have similar values...