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                                    Exhibition view Mikołaj Sobczak, Moon, Sun, Mercury, 2025. Commissioned and produced by Salzburger Kunstverein and co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Republic of Poland. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: kunst-dokumentation
                            
                            
        
                                        
                                    
                                    Exhibition view Mikołaj Sobczak, Moon, Sun, Mercury, 2025. Commissioned and produced by Salzburger Kunstverein and co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Republic of Poland. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: kunst-dokumentation
                            
                            Mikołaj Sobczak
                                SUN (MAGICAL REALISM), 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-.25-0002
                                    
                                   'Sun (Magical Realism)', a work that confronts the aesthetic and political dimensions of magical realism. Far from an escapist fantasy, magical realism is presented here as a tool of survival...
                        
                    
                                                    "Sun (Magical Realism)", a work that confronts the aesthetic and political dimensions of magical realism. Far from an escapist fantasy, magical realism is presented here as a tool of survival in the face of violence and systemic erasure. Sobczak assembles a vivid ensemble: a revolutionary woman drawn from communist propaganda, standing in a posture echoing the Magus of the Tarot; Goethe invoked as a beacon against reactionary romanticism, as Thomas Mann once urged; poisonous plants like mandrake and belladonna, historically employed in rebellion against feudal lords.