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Installation 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. Ph: kunst-dokumentation
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Installation 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. Ph: kunst-dokumentation
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Installation 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. Ph: kunst-dokumentation
Mikołaj Sobczak
MOON (PROPAGANDA), 2025Acrylic on canvasSigned and dated verso200 x 477 cm
78.7 x 187.8 inchesB-MSOBCZAK-.25-0001Further images
'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.Exhibitions
Mikołaj Sobczak, Moon, Sun, Mercury, Salzburger Kunstverein, 2025