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Sefa Catuk, Venus, Painting on canvas
Sefa Catuk, Venus, Painting on canvas
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Sefa Catuk, Venus, Painting on canvas
Sefa Catuk, Venus, Painting on canvas
Sefa Catuk, Venus, Painting on canvas
Sefa Catuk, Venus, Painting on canvas
Sefa Catuk, Venus, Painting on canvas
Sefa Catuk, Venus, Painting on canvas

Venus, 2026
Sefa Catuk

Painting : oil

100 x 80 x 3 cm 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch

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Hand-signed by artist

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Medium

Painting: oil

Dimensions cm • inch

100 x 80 x 3 cm 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch Height x Width x Depth

Support

Painting on canvas on stretcher

Framing

Black frame

Artwork dimensions including frame

110 x 90 x 6 cm 43.3 x 35.4 x 2.4 inch

Tags

Nude

figurative

Human body

Women

Men

orange

Green

Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang

Artwork location: France

In Venus, Sefa Çatuk returns the myth to its most ancient root: before Venus was desire, she was nature. The central figure—a whole body painted in an intense vegetal green, skin traversed by the same fine hatching as the grass, leaves, and moss around her—is not a woman in a landscape. She is the landscape.

Placed on a tree trunk as if on a sculpture's pedestal, she cradles the sleeping man's head in the hollow of her hand. He rests. She watches over him. And in this gap of consciousness between the two bodies, Çatuk lodges the entire question of the work: who contemplates whom? Who is the object, who is the gaze?

The tree trunk is not a detail. It is the theological heart of the painting.

In the Western tradition, the sculpture of Venus—from the earth to the stone—has always attempted to capture the divine in matter. To carve the stone was to approach the goddess. Çatuk reverses this gesture: he places the goddess herself on raw wood, on the felled trunk, on what remains of a living tree. The base is not polished marble—it is organic matter, imperfect, mortal.

In doing so, he suggests that the human desire to touch the divine in nature—by sculpting bodies, by painting goddesses—was perhaps unnecessary. Nature didn't need to be copied. It was already Venus.

The terracotta-skinned man sleeps, his eyelids closed, one hand resting on his own stomach in a gesture of complete surrender. The green figure holds him—not possessively, but with the grave attention of someone who knows that another's sleep is an act of trust.

Here, Çatuk constructs his favorite dyad: two beings in radically different states, one absent to himself, the other fully present. This is not equality in love—it is something older, more asymmetrical: the relationship between the mortal and that which transcends him, between the man who dreams and the force that watches over his dream.

The bird perched in the ginkgo above them — small, silent, bearing a red dot like a pupil — is the third gaze. The one that sees all and says nothing.

The green of Venus is not a chromatic fantasy. It is an ontological statement.

In the history of painting, Venus is flesh—pink, warm, luminous. Çatuk strips her of this superficial humanity to give her a deeper one: the color of sap, of seaweed, of copper oxidized by centuries, of the garden at dawn. Her body is made of the same substance as the stems that surround her, the ginkgo leaves above her, the dense grass that grows everywhere with an almost stubborn vitality.

Facing her, the man's terracotta skin—warm, ochre, fragile—evokes clay, pottery, the very material from which men are made in mythologies around the world, the earth. She is vegetal, he is mineral. Together, they form a complete world.

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