Mikołaj Sobczak
It was easier to get a boy in the East, 2023
Oil, collage on aluminium
Signed, dated and titled verso
30.5 x 26.5 cm
12 x 10.4 inches
12 x 10.4 inches
B-MSOBCZAK-.24-0013
The work depicts Wojciech Karpiński, an art historian and anti-socialist activist who lived in exile in Paris. Later in his life, Karpiński began traveling regularly from Paris to Berlin to...
The work depicts Wojciech Karpiński, an art historian and anti-socialist activist who lived in exile in Paris. Later in his life, Karpiński began traveling regularly from Paris to Berlin to engage in cruising at the city’s many gay clubs. According to Karpiński, Parisian gay men were ageists, and, as the title of the work states, it was easier for him to find companionship in the East.