Portrait and a Dream is a monumental canvas that stages a radical confrontation between the unconscious and identity. Across two thirds of the surface slides a tangle of white and black lines, spatters and pours, graphic vortices breathing a dark, primordial energy: the “dream”, mental unrest, the raw matter of the soul. On the opposite side emerges a distorted face, with harsh, anguished proportions, built with aggressive brushstrokes and warm, contrasting colours: yellow, orange, black. They seem to be chaos and consciousness, dream and self-portrait, pain and awareness.
The work brutally conveys inner complexity: memory, trauma and the desire to communicate the unspeakable all flow into it. It is a “portrait of the soul”, cruel, true and unfiltered, in which painting becomes voice, confession, visual scream.
Unique quality material
Print on handmade Amalfi paper Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in) With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in) Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges Frame: light brown beech wood and wood pulp, handmade
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