Анна Каренина - DANCING UNDER THE STARS -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: DANCING UNDER THE STARS

Dancing Under the Stars presents itself as a ritual image, suspended between archaism and play, consciously drawing from the language of ancient carpets and primordial symbolic narratives. The composition is enclosed within a clear border, recalling the delimiting function of the carpet: not mere decoration, but an other space—a sacred ground in which action acquires symbolic value.
The two spotted figures, anthropomorphized animals, are captured in a gesture that is simultaneously dance and confrontation. Their bodies face one another without touching; the raised arms create a rhythmic tension that runs across the entire surface. There is no real aggression, but rather a controlled energy, almost choreographic, that transforms potential conflict into shared movement. The repetition of signs—the black spots, the yellow stars, the undulating line below— constructs a cyclical visual time, characteristic of archaic imagery.
The red background dominates the scene with primal force: it is the color of life, blood, and heat, but also of the mythical space in which origin stories unfold. The stars, stylized and regular, do not illuminate from above but participate in the dance, becoming rhythmic elements rather than astronomical ones. The green wavy line at the bottom suggests earth, water, or vital energy sustaining the movement—a fluid boundary between stability and transformation.
The reference to archaic carpets is not only formal but conceptual: as in them, the narrative does not unfold linearly but through symbols, repetitions, and oppositions. Dancing Under the Stars evokes an original time in which human and animal, gesture and ritual, decoration and meaning were not yet separated. The work returns to the contemporary gaze a primitive and universal dimension, reminding us that dance—before being an aesthetic expression—is an act of relation, balance, and belonging to the cosmos.

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.