Nush Menna - Coxo
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Artist Nush Menna, Coxo (2025), oil on canvas, original edition, 100 × 70 cm, hand-signed, produced in Italy, contemporary style, in excellent condition, weight 0.2 kg, with certificate of authenticity and simple frame.
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Title: So in So (X♡X♡)
Artist: Nush
Year: 2026
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 70 × 100 cm
Curatorial description
In So in So (X♡X♡) Nush builds a contemporary portrait that blends urban imagination and natural landscape. The female figure, tattooed and wearing a leather jacket, emerges in the foreground beside a motorcycle on a coastal shoreline at sunset. The contrast between the warm light of the sky and the deep blue of the sea creates a suspended visual space between calm and narrative tension.
The artist works with an intense, detailed figurative rendering, in which the body becomes a symbolic surface. The tattoos, clothing elements and biker iconography construct a visual identity tied to themes of individual freedom, self-determination and contemporary aesthetics.
The title So in So (X♡X♡) introduces a dimension that is more intimate and ironic: the X’s allude to kisses while the ♡ represent hearts, elements typical of the affectionate language of messages. This visual code dialogues with the image, creating a contrast between aesthetic hardness and emotional vulnerability.
The work thus places itself within a broader reflection on contemporary portraiture, where identity, personal symbols and pop visual culture weave together in a painterly narrative that combines iconic strength and emotional sensitivity.
Final protective varnish,
Certificate of authenticity
* To avoid further polluting the world and contribute to an ecological choice, I will use recycled cardboard. The small step toward a cleaner world starts with each individual. A responsible choice for all.
You can watch the video detailing the painting and the various stages of creation on my Instagram profile nush_artwork, or on my website, https://nushart. com
Provided with a certificate of authenticity and shipped with careful packing in a tube.
Simple frame included as a gift.
Seller's Story
My painting is born from the desire to explore the human being in contemporary time, between identity, symbols, and inner transformations. I do not simply paint what I see, but what I perceive behind the image: emotions, fragility, tensions, and contradictions that belong to our era.
My work develops through a layered and slow oil technique, where every detail has a meaning and every element contributes to the narrative of the piece. The figures I paint do not represent merely individuals, but universal conditions: vulnerability, strength, loneliness, and the longing for connection.
For me painting is an act of research and authenticity, a way to restore depth in a world dominated by speed and superficial image. Through color, light, and composition I seek to create works capable of maintaining a living relationship with those who observe them over time.
My works are present in international private collections and are mainly created in oil on canvas, with a constant production and an artistic research in continual evolution.
"ZEITGEISTTEPERAMENTLOS [SPIRITO - DEL - TEMPO - SENZA - SPIRITO]
Riflesso di un attento "studium" travestito da distratto "punctum" - raccolta di ritratti senza identità - costellazione claustrofobica di tribù urbane - moltitudini solitarie - selfie ugualmente di sé massificati per te distratto - istantanee di un passato presente - colori forti per spiriti fragili - profonda superficialità - spirito - del - tempo - senza - spirito."
Translated by Google TranslateTitle: So in So (X♡X♡)
Artist: Nush
Year: 2026
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 70 × 100 cm
Curatorial description
In So in So (X♡X♡) Nush builds a contemporary portrait that blends urban imagination and natural landscape. The female figure, tattooed and wearing a leather jacket, emerges in the foreground beside a motorcycle on a coastal shoreline at sunset. The contrast between the warm light of the sky and the deep blue of the sea creates a suspended visual space between calm and narrative tension.
The artist works with an intense, detailed figurative rendering, in which the body becomes a symbolic surface. The tattoos, clothing elements and biker iconography construct a visual identity tied to themes of individual freedom, self-determination and contemporary aesthetics.
The title So in So (X♡X♡) introduces a dimension that is more intimate and ironic: the X’s allude to kisses while the ♡ represent hearts, elements typical of the affectionate language of messages. This visual code dialogues with the image, creating a contrast between aesthetic hardness and emotional vulnerability.
The work thus places itself within a broader reflection on contemporary portraiture, where identity, personal symbols and pop visual culture weave together in a painterly narrative that combines iconic strength and emotional sensitivity.
Final protective varnish,
Certificate of authenticity
* To avoid further polluting the world and contribute to an ecological choice, I will use recycled cardboard. The small step toward a cleaner world starts with each individual. A responsible choice for all.
You can watch the video detailing the painting and the various stages of creation on my Instagram profile nush_artwork, or on my website, https://nushart. com
Provided with a certificate of authenticity and shipped with careful packing in a tube.
Simple frame included as a gift.
Seller's Story
My painting is born from the desire to explore the human being in contemporary time, between identity, symbols, and inner transformations. I do not simply paint what I see, but what I perceive behind the image: emotions, fragility, tensions, and contradictions that belong to our era.
My work develops through a layered and slow oil technique, where every detail has a meaning and every element contributes to the narrative of the piece. The figures I paint do not represent merely individuals, but universal conditions: vulnerability, strength, loneliness, and the longing for connection.
For me painting is an act of research and authenticity, a way to restore depth in a world dominated by speed and superficial image. Through color, light, and composition I seek to create works capable of maintaining a living relationship with those who observe them over time.
My works are present in international private collections and are mainly created in oil on canvas, with a constant production and an artistic research in continual evolution.
"ZEITGEISTTEPERAMENTLOS [SPIRITO - DEL - TEMPO - SENZA - SPIRITO]
Riflesso di un attento "studium" travestito da distratto "punctum" - raccolta di ritratti senza identità - costellazione claustrofobica di tribù urbane - moltitudini solitarie - selfie ugualmente di sé massificati per te distratto - istantanee di un passato presente - colori forti per spiriti fragili - profonda superficialità - spirito - del - tempo - senza - spirito."
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Artist
Nush Menna
Sold with frame
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Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Coxo
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
100 cm
Width
70 cm
Weight
0.2 kg
Style
Contemporary
Period
2020+
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