Анна Каренина - 13:15

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 62 x 51 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: 13:15
13:15 presents itself as an apparently simple image, almost childlike in its line, yet charged with a silent tension that arises from the relationship between time, stillness, and survival.
At the center of the work, a pot holding a slender plant with elongated, irregular stems appears to be struggling to grow. The leaves are few, fragile, almost incomplete: there is no lushness here, only a stubborn insistence on existing. The pot is immersed in water, or perhaps surrounded by it—an ambiguous element that can be read as both nourishment and threat. The water shows no movement; it is a flat blue stasis that isolates the object rather than sustaining it.
On the right, a circular form evokes a clock or a dimmed sun. The hands mark 13:15, a suspended hour: neither the beginning nor the end of the day, but an intermediate, often anonymous moment in which time continues to pass without events. It is the hour when everything should be alive, yet here a sense of mute waiting prevails. Time does not act; it watches.
The uncertain, almost trembling line and the reduced color palette reinforce the idea of precariousness. The work seems to reject any sense of finished aesthetics in favor of a rawer emotional truth: that of slowed, controlled, perhaps neglected growth. The plant does not wither, but neither does it bloom. It endures.
13:15 thus becomes a metaphor for contemporary existence: immersed in conditions that should foster life, yet unable to fully transform them into vital momentum. It is the time of unstable balance, of “remaining,” of living without eruption. A work that speaks softly, yet leaves a persistent trace—like the echo of a minute that continues to repeat itself.

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.