Анна Каренина - Summer Pool with Diving Board - XXL

Shipping and Handling: To ensure maximum protection, the artwork is shipped rolled in a rigid cardboard tube; therefore, it is SOLD UNFRAMED AND WITHOUT A STRETCHER BAR. Upon request, the collector may arrange for the canvas to be stretched: in this case, the costs for the service and the adjusted shipping fees will be at the buyer's expense.The painting measures approximately 140 x 140 cm to allow for framing.
The certificate of authenticity will also be sent with the work.
The artwork is created on jute canvas, prepared with rabbit-skin glue and Gesso di Bologna.

TITLE: SUMMER POOL WITH DIVING BOARD

Summer Pool with Diving Board transforms a familiar, contemporary experience into a symbolic construction based on rhythm, order, and passage. The work draws on archaic Indian carpets not for any decorative value, but for their structuring function: visual systems capable of organizing space through modules, repetition, and minimal variation.
The composition is articulated into two main fields. In the lower section, a compact grid of chromatic modules defines the pool as an active, dense, continuous surface. Blue dominates but is never uniform; it vibrates through subtle tonal shifts that suggest movement while remaining within a rigorous framework. The grid does not freeze the image—it places it under tension, making visible an internal time made of pauses and resumptions.
The upper section, more open and discontinuous, is occupied by isolated geometric forms arranged like suspended presences. These signs can be read as fragments of bodies, interrupted trajectories, or moments of transition. The central vertical element functions as an axis of passage, evoking the act of diving and the role of the board as a threshold between two states: air and water, anticipation and immersion.
The reference to archaic Indian carpets emerges in the conception of space as a symbolic field rather than a perspectival one. The image does not describe a place; it constructs it through internal relations, entrusting the rhythm of modules with the generation of meaning. The pool thus becomes a condensed experiential space, where the body is present through traces and possibilities rather than direct representation.
Summer Pool with Diving Board returns an essential, measured dimension to the everyday, transforming a simple gesture into a diagram of balance and passage. The work invites the viewer to dwell within the structure, to read the signs as potential acts, situating the experience of time and the body within an order that does not immobilize, but contains.

Anna Karenina

Behind the pseudonym Анна Каренина lies an artistic figure of profound introspective sensitivity, one who has deliberately chosen shadow as a space for creative freedom. Her true identity remains concealed, protected by a veil of privacy that shifts the viewer's entire focus away from the artist's face and onto the substance of her work. This distance from the traditional art system is underscored by a specific operational choice: the artist maintains no direct ties with galleries or museums, preferring to navigate the art world through intermediaries and proxies who act as guardians of her privacy and messengers of her aesthetic.
Her visual language moves along a delicate ridge separating stylized figuration from pure abstraction, drawing heavily from the lessons of European modernism—showing a particular affinity for the rhythmic rigor of Paul Klee and the chromatic explorations of the historical avant-garde. Anna Karenina's creative path is distinguished by a constant investigation into structure: the visible world is reduced to primordial signs, where thin, elegant lines alternate with solid geometric fields. For her, the square and the rectangle are not formal cages but units of emotional measurement; her grids never appear rigid, but rather pulsating and almost organic, thanks to a color application that retains a tactile warmth and human vibration.
In her more abstract compositions, the painter explores the concept of visual rhythm. By juxtaposing chromatic tiles that float against often neutral or raw backgrounds, the artist creates visual scores where color—sometimes bright and primary, other times muted and earthy—dictates the tempo of the narrative. Even when addressing everyday subjects, she performs a process of extreme synthesis: forms are stripped of the superfluous to reveal the essence of the object, transforming common elements into icons of a poetics of fragility.
Silence and absence are fundamental components of her aesthetic. Her canvases offer a space for meditation, a place where the balance of visual weights invites a slow and solitary reading, mirroring her own way of existing within the art world. Anna Karenina does not seek the clamor of public success, but rather deep resonance; her art is a silent dialogue between the order of thought and the unpredictability of feeling, mediated by an invisibility that makes each of her chromatic appearances all the more precious and sought after.