Untitled, 2006
From Door Cycle
Screenprint (glossy black) on white painted wood door panel. Size: 200 x 90 x 4 cm (78¾ x 35½ x 1½ in). Edition: 15, signed and numbered on separate label.
This edition by Wilhelm Sasnal presents a stark, glossy black screenprint of a serpent suspended from a taut cord, rendered on a white, painted wooden door panel. True to Sasnal’s signature visual language, the image is stripped down to its essential elements – minimal, quiet, and unsettling. The serpent, both symbolically charged and graphically isolated, hangs limply in a vertical format that emphasizes its vulnerability and ambiguity. At once enigmatic and charged with latent narrative, the piece typifies Sasnal’s ability to distill complex emotion and symbolism into a deceptively simple image.
