Анна Каренина - REMEMBER YOU

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 60 x 53 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: REMEMBER YOU
The work titled "Remember You" offers itself to the viewer as a visual meditation on the persistence and fragility of existence, where through a figurative language reduced to its essentials, the artist explores the theme of memory not as a static archive, but as a living organism that, although marked by time, continues to endure with dignity. The central element of the potted plant is stripped of any decorative intent to become a pure graphic sign in which the stems, appearing as thin and almost trembling lines, evoke a strained verticality that seems to trace the diagram of a memory struggling to remain clear, while the branches that bend sharply outward suggest a tension toward the elsewhere or the natural decay of the organic. The technique used plays a fundamental role in conveying this message, as the color is applied with such lightness that it allows the texture of the canvas to become an integral part of the image, giving the painting the aura of an ancient artifact that seems to be fading or emerging from a distant past. The chromatic contrast between the vase, rendered in warm earthy tones that act as a visual anchor, and the almost ghostly evanescence of the leaves, transforms the everyday object into a powerful relational metaphor where the surrounding neutral space represents the silence necessary for the memory to manifest itself. In this aesthetic of subtraction, the artist eliminates every superfluous detail to force the observer to confront the essence of form and feeling, celebrating the ability of the fragile to remain standing, sheltered within the mind or the heart as if in a protective vessel.

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.