Sunset by Andrii Sahach
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 20 cm
Year: 2023
Price: $35000.00 USD
Status: available
The world we live in is fragile-like a mirage on hot sand. What seems unshakable can crumble to dust; what was a stone yesterday becomes a grain of sand today. Are you sure you see the world as it is, and not as you wish to see it? Is it the last rays of a setting sun-or a nuclear mushroom cloud blooming on the horizon? Behind the veneer of beauty and carefreeness lurks the shadow of destruction. In our pursuit of the perfect picture, we fail to notice the ground cracking beneath our feet, how the world is slowly sinking into the chaos of war, conflict, and deceit. Stop and look more closely: perhaps the paradise around you has long been turning into an illusion.
Why collect this work?
Sunset compresses reclining bodies beneath an oversized, cloud-framed orb, turning apparent repose into an image poised between shelter and catastrophe.
- Sahach describes his practice as joining scientific thought with questions of perception and memory. Here, that concern clarifies the scene’s unresolved identity rather than proving any single reading.
- In the photograph, pale interlocking figures occupy the lower band while concentric red, orange and dark forms dominate above. The central shape can register as a setting sun, but its broad cap also supports the artist’s stated mushroom-cloud interpretation.
- Catalogue metadata identifies acrylic on canvas and a compact 20 × 20 cm format. Dense dot-like modulation separates bodies, ground and sky while allowing their contours to soften into adjoining fields.
- The painting is significant for how it makes visual ambiguity carry an ethical question: whether beauty can obscure approaching violence. Its peaceful foreground and threatening horizon require those readings to remain simultaneous.
About the Artist
Andrii Sahach
Andrii Sahach is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Painting. Based in Kyiv, UA.
Nationality: Ukrainian
My works are meditations on memory, time, and the fragility of existence.
