Mikołaj Sobczak
MOON (PROPAGANDA), 2025
Acrylic on canvas
Signed and dated verso
200 x 477 cm
78.7 x 187.8 inches
78.7 x 187.8 inches
B-MSOBCZAK-.25-0001
'Moon (Propaganda)' plunges into a field of disorientation. Here, Sobczak stages a collision between capitalist iconography, fascist grotesques, and present-day humanitarian crises. The “Knight of Capitalism,” drawn from Luc Boltanski...
"Moon (Propaganda)" plunges into a field of disorientation. Here, Sobczak stages a collision between capitalist iconography, fascist grotesques, and present-day humanitarian crises. The “Knight of Capitalism,” drawn from Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello’s analysis of capitalism's evolving legitimations, is transformed into a monstrous amalgam of George Grosz’s fascist caricatures and contemporary technofeudal motifs. Sobczak’s Iron Man figure locks a broken barrel labeled “capitalism” into a fascist ring, visualizing the transition from capitalist deregulation to authoritarian closure described by theorists like Przemysław Wielgosz.