Анна Каренина - THE WAY HOME -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: THE WAY HOME

"The Way Home" is a refined geometric synthesis that translates an emotional and narrative experience into a purely abstract language. At first glance, the painting dialogues with the legacy of Suprematism and Neoplasticism, yet it does so with a tactile sensitivity and compositional freedom that make it profoundly contemporary.

The title guides the viewer to read the shapes not as mere abstractions, but as signposts of the soul. The fragmented black-and-white columns act as pillars or "milestones," representing the rhythm of the march—the steady pulse of the journey toward a goal. The incursions of red and green are far from accidental; the red suggests heat signatures, emotional hearths, or moments of urgency, while the green, clustered in denser blocks toward the base, evokes an organic stability—perhaps gardens or landscapes bordering the path.

The work plays on a fascinating tension between order and imperfection. Although the grid is the organizing principle, the edges of the squares are frayed, almost trembling. This technical choice humanizes the geometry: it is not a cold, digital map, but a lived one, traced by a hand that feels the weight of the journey. The neutral background, resembling raw canvas or ancient parchment, allows the primary colors and non-colors to float, representing the silence or the distance separating the traveler from their destination.

In this piece, "home" is not a physical place represented figuratively, but a state of resolution. In the upper section, the black and white squares follow a regular line, suggesting a horizon or a predefined limit. In the lower section, the composition becomes denser and more layered, suggesting that approaching one's destination involves greater complexity—an accumulation of memories and sensations. Ultimately, the artist successfully transforms the concept of "pathway" into a visual score. Each square module is a note; the void between them is the rest. The result is a composition that does not merely describe a route but invites the viewer to walk it with their eyes, leaping from one block of color to the next.

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.