"Black Sunlight 2025/1" Painting
Painting, Oil on Canvas
72.8 W x 72.8 H in
Ready to Hang
$16,220
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With the series Black Sunlight, I delve into the fascinating duality of light and darkness. Inspired by Pierre Soulages’ revolutionary concept of outrenoir—a dimension beyond black—I create works that elevate the dialogue between viewer and artwork to a new, transformative level. The series exclusi...
Year Created:
2025
Subject:
Mediums:
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Rarity:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
72.8 W x 72.8 H x 1.8 D in
Ready to Hang:
Yes
Frame:
Not Framed
Authenticity:
Certificate is Included
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
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Shipping is included in price.
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Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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Handling:
Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:
Germany.
Customs:
Shipments from Germany may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.
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Stephan Welsch (b. 1983, Germany) is a German-Spanish contemporary painter whose work explores the psychological structures that shape human identity.
Working primarily with oil paint on large-scale canvases, Welsch investigates themes such as control, vulnerability, identity, emotional dependency and transformation. Rather than illustrating narratives, his paintings create psychological spaces in which the human figure becomes a metaphor for internal states.
His current body of work, The Anatomy of Control, examines control not as power, but as a psychological response to vulnerability. Through restrained monochromatic palettes, layered surfaces and subtle symbolic elements, the paintings invite slow observation and reveal new meanings over time.
Earlier works from the series Black Sunlight explored the relationship between light and darkness through monochromatic abstraction, emphasizing materiality, texture and the viewer's physical presence before the painting.
For Welsch, painting is not about providing answers but creating encounters. His works invite viewers to confront invisible emotional structures, question familiar patterns and discover their own interpretations within the image.
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