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Technical data
year | 2023 |
purchase date | acquired in the portfolio |
estimated current value in € | consult the updated Price Table |
identification of the subject | abstract painting/reconstructivist work |
materials and techniques | oil on canvas/mixed media/material work |
measurements in centimeters cm | 100 x 70 x 1,8 |
inscriptions | signature |
inscription technique | oil |
inscription position | on the back/bottom/right |
transcription | Valvo |
authenticity certificate | issued at the same time as the sale |
art multiples | no print issued |
state of conservation | intact work |
location of the work | Rome · Italy |
copyright | © all rights reserved · global · S.I.A.E. |
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Description of work
Tehran, Veiled Women
The veiled Iranian woman. The Dasht-e Lut desert.
The two ingredients of the pictorial composition reside in this combination.
A veiled work in itself, in its entirety.
The work actually emerges from a fully filtered stratification of overlapping levels. An almost imperceptible separating element is placed between our eye and the colors below. The color is therefore partially hidden by a whitish veil that thins only in certain points, where it is possible to immediately appreciate the nature of the underlying pigment. Therefore, at times, the tones of blue, green, light blue, pink and aqua green appear.
Circumscribed oases, within a material substratum with sandy tones.
A central vortex structurally sucks in the surrounding geometries, wrapping around itself with inexorable calm. This circular element gives softness to the whole and implies the tautological reiteration of the dynamics at play. Rotation naturally implies the concept of death and rebirth and connects to the theme of the imperishable flow of events. Therefore a timeless work. Chronologically split. Isolated.
A serpentine element is set, along the right rib of the canvas, inside a small material cell that surrounds it. Similar material agglomerations are scattered throughout the entire body of the work.
It is what we glimpse through the transparencies, through the veils, that creates in our perception a sort of diegetic scaffolding, a kind of incomplete mapping of the pictorial plot. A plot that denies and concedes itself at the same time. We are therefore not allowed to directly understand what is happening. What we can do is perceive only the vague inkling of events, facts, actions and circumstances that take place independently of our awareness.
Magnetically attracted by the deep desire to reveal such hidden content, we are led to challenge the prohibition by trying to decipher every single detail available.
We therefore note the presence of pink quadratures, subtle linearities, ocher geometries, widespread roughness. We perceive the effect of the solar heat that creeps into every ravine. We almost seem to hear distant voices, mixed together, busy and unaware of our gaze. Slowly the work reveals itself to our senses and we are almost absorbed by it. What a moment before seemed forbidden to us gradually acquires a permeable aspect. Here the work begins to take place, starting to function mechanically in our psyche, achieving in this way its purpose.
The charm of the forbidden you could say. The Middle Eastern mystery.
A mystery that “Teheran, Veiled Women” partially contributes to resolving in our perception.
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