Camillo Gannelli - Paesaggio onirico

An artwork you look at more with the breath than with your eyes. At first glance it almost seems like a landscape blurred by memory: at the bottom a large blue field, dense and tactile, like the water of a lake at sunset or an inverted sky. Above, a vibrating horizontal band, where the color becomes dirtier, more lived-in, almost a coastline line, of houses, of distant presences. And then there are the three red verticals. They are not figures, not trees, not flags. They are accents, luminous wounds, three warm breaths that interrupt the cold of blue and gray. Around them, touches of ochre and antique gold that seem like reflections, memories of light. The strength of this painting lies precisely in its material: it is not smooth, it is not perfect. The surface is worked, scratched, layered, as if time had passed over it. From afar it invites calm, up close it asks you to approach, to almost touch with the gaze. It’s a work to keep in a quiet room, where it can do its slow job: not to tell, but to evoke. Everyone will see something different in it, and that is exactly its value. Who it’s for: for those who love lyrical abstraction, rarefied atmospheres, and paintings that don’t explain themselves in a single sentence. Where I’d see it well: above a console, in a living room or bedroom, with warm, raking light that enhances its texture. It is an acrylic on canvas

Estimación:400€

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