Анна Каренина - THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT -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 FORBIDDEN FRUIT

The Forbidden Fruit presents itself as a work of strong formal essentiality, in which the visual language is reduced to signs, primary colors, and geometric structures that evoke an archaic and symbolic dimension. The apparent simplicity of the composition conceals a deep conceptual tension, played out through the contrast between order and desire, innocence and transgression.
The surface of the work is crossed by repetitive and rhythmic elements that suggest a system, a rule, almost a visual code. Within this regulated space, more dynamic and irregular forms emerge, seemingly alluding to the breaking of balance: it is here that the “forbidden fruit” is located, not as a recognizable object, but as a conceptual presence, as an act. The forbidden is not shown, but suggested through deviation, rupture, and the gesture that escapes the scheme.
The use of color—clear and unmodulated—reinforces the symbolic character of the work. The primary tones recall an almost childlike imagery, which nevertheless clashes with the title, laden with a long cultural and moral tradition. This visual and conceptual short circuit invites the viewer to reflect on the relationship between knowledge and guilt, between play and responsibility.
As a whole, The Forbidden Fruit does not offer a closed narrative, but an open structure that requires the active participation of the viewer’s gaze. The work seems to suggest that the desire to cross boundaries is an integral part of the human experience, and that it is precisely within this tension that the profound meaning of the forbidden resides: not in the object itself, but in the gaze that seeks it.

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.