The Mirror man by Andrii Sahach
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm
Year: 2024
Price: $100000.00 USD
Status: available
"The Mirror man" - is one part of the diptych 21st Century, a reflection on identity and perception in the modern world. This work presents the human being as a receptacle of collective memory and emotion. The figure's blue body becomes the sky filled with birds, planes, and fragments of nature while below, the shadows of destruction and memory smoulder in the background. The composition strikes a balance between fragility and monumentality. The bowed head evokes introspection, mourning, or quiet resilience a silent echo of the turbulence that defines our age. Here, man is both a part of the world and a fragment of the goodness we still have left.
Why collect this work?
A bowed blue figure is built from dense fields of dots, making the body appear less like a boundary than a container for sky, land and signs of human activity.
- Sahach describes his “photon dot” practice as a way to connect perception with memory. Here, that stated concern clarifies why figure and environment share the same granular visual language without proving a fixed emotional meaning.
- In the photograph, the lowered head dominates the square composition. Tiny birds and an aircraft cross the figure, while green vegetation occupies the torso; a red balloon and a distant orange glow interrupt the prevailing blue, black and white.
- The catalogue records acrylic on canvas. Acrylic can sustain the crisp, repeated marks and abrupt colour contrasts seen here, allowing bodily volume to emerge from accumulation rather than continuous modelling.
- Identified in the catalogue as one half of the diptych 21st Century, this 2024 painting gives contemporary identity a porous form: personal reflection, nature and implied destruction occupy one body. Encountered alone, that compression remains unresolved rather than illustrative.
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.
