Sosnowski specialises in experimental film and photography, performance art and audio art. He studied at the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Wrocław. One of the most active artists in the neo-avant-garde movement of the 1970s. His contemporary works, such as My Time (2000) and Collectors of Flies (2007), created with the use of computer techniques, are a ludic comment on the problems of self-creation, self-reflection and tautology. Selected individual and group exhibitions: Akumulatory 2 Gallery, Poznań (1973); Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw (1973); 10th Biennale de Paris (1977); Presences Polonaises, Centre Pompidou (1983); Wanda Dunikowski Galerie, Cologne (1989).
1975
diptych, gelatin silver prints, 18 x 23.8 cm (each),
signature and date on the reverse,
unique object
vintage prints
Sosnowski was a pioneer artist who made use of the language of popular culture and consciously created his own myth and media image. An outstanding example of this practice is the Goalkeeper series of photographs, taken since 1974, and his film under the same title, in which the author focuses on analysing such processes as modern myth creation and the promotion of idols and their careers by the mass media.
Exhibitions: Goalkeeper, Piekary Gallery, Poznań (2009); Robokeeper vs Goalkeeper, Jan Tarasin Gallery, Kalisz (2011).
Sosnowski specialises in experimental film and photography, performance art and audio art. He studied at the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Wrocław. One of the most active artists in the neo-avant-garde movement of the 1970s. His contemporary works, such as My Time (2000) and Collectors of Flies (2007), created with the use of computer techniques, are a ludic comment on the problems of self-creation, self-reflection and tautology. Selected individual and group exhibitions: Akumulatory 2 Gallery, Poznań (1973); Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw (1973); 10th Biennale de Paris (1977); Presences Polonaises, Centre Pompidou (1983); Wanda Dunikowski Galerie, Cologne (1989).