Vives Maristany (XX) - The Threshold

- Oil on cardboard. Signed.

- In this work by Vives Maristany, the composition unfolds as an exploration of liminality, where the window ceases to be merely an architectural element and becomes a metaphysical threshold between two states of light. The painting inhabits that “in-between space” where the dark interior, dominated by a deep, dense blue, collides with the violent, blinding intrusion of the exterior yellow. The potted plant, strategically placed in the line of shadow, acts as the guardian of this transit place, receiving the last vestiges of clarity before being absorbed by the wall’s darkness. It is a painting that captures the suspense of the threshold: that suspended moment where form struggles not to dissolve into chromatic abstraction, suggesting that true reality is not in the origin or the destination, but in the vibrant tension of the border.

- Image dimensions without the frame: 55 x 53 cm / 70 x 68 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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