
Sportsmen Parade (After Rodchenko)
A large-scale oil painting that reimagines Alexander Rodchenko's iconic Soviet-era photograph of a mass athletic parade, rendered in Sasnal's characteristically reduced and flattened visual language. The figures merge into a rhythmic, almost abstract procession of muted tones, stripping the original image of its propagandistic grandeur while preserving its hypnotic compositional force. Sasnal's translation from photograph to paint introduces a quiet ambiguity, transforming a symbol of collective ideological spectacle into something more contemplative and uncertain.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 16, 2014
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