THE KRASNALS Group (group formed in 2008), Dream of Warsaw, 2022

Dream of Warsaw, 2022
acrylic, canvas; 130 x 100 cm;
Signed, dated and described on the reverse: "Dream of Warsaw" / '2022 / THE KRASNALS / Whielki Krasnal.

A group of anonymous artists associated with the critical art current initiated in the 1990s. In their creative activities they comment on realitý, current political and social events and often mainstream events related to contemporary art or pop culture. Their works are not̨ without ambiguous humor, sometimes alsȯ irony. Nevertheless, the goal of the activitieś of The Dwarfs Group is to highlight the eventś and themes that bother them, without explicitly declaring which side of the depicted event they̨ stand for. The Krasnals, in addition to their artistic activities, speak extensively̨ on the blog they maintain. In 2009, The Krasnals Group, which includes̨: Great Dwarf, Dwarf Halabala 1 and 2, Dwarf Banksy and collaborative painters, was nominated for the Passports of Polityka. At the time, their painting was used in an installation by Piotr Uklański presented at the Tate Modern. In 2011, the first issue of the Art Police Gazette was published, which premiered̨ during the Venice Art Biennale. In 2012, their monumental work "Battle of Grunwald / Ship of Fools" was created The works of The Krasnals Group arę found̨ in collections including: MOCAK - Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Silesian Museum in Katowice, Museum of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.

Declaration of The Krasnals Group: "As provocateurs of culture, we prove the prevailing hypocrisy̨, hypocrisy̨, mechanisms of power. We criticize the reduction of art to political propaganda, the creation of the spectacle of art and the stripping of its authenticity."