PAArtist - THE PUNK 3
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PAArtist – THE PUNK 3, mixed media portrait (60 cm × 50 cm, 200 g) from 2025, hand-signed, in excellent condition, an original edition from Italy, Neo-Expressionism, 2020+, sold directly by the artist.
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Description:
The work depicts a human face emerging from a dark background, built up through a dense layering of painting matter. The dominant use of white and black intensifies the visual contrast, making the face almost a pale yet determined presence.
Stylistic features:
The painting unfolds through rapid and incisive gesturality, made of scratched marks, overlaps and erasures. The surface is tactile and vibrant, with a construction of accumulation and subtraction that recalls languages related to Informalism and neo-expressionism. The face is not depicted in a naturalistic way, but is broken down and rebuilt through a sign-based synthesis that favors emotional intensity over formal definition.
Concept:
The work explores the theme of identity as an unstable and fragmented process. The face, rather than asserting itself as a defined presence, dissolves into the material, suggesting a condition of isolation and inner tension. In keeping with the artist’s poetics, discomfort becomes a creative engine: the painting takes shape as a space of conflict between light and darkness, between appearance and annihilation, returning a deeply introspective and unsettling view of the individual.
Provenance: From the artist’s collection.
Description:
The work depicts a human face emerging from a dark background, built up through a dense layering of painting matter. The dominant use of white and black intensifies the visual contrast, making the face almost a pale yet determined presence.
Stylistic features:
The painting unfolds through rapid and incisive gesturality, made of scratched marks, overlaps and erasures. The surface is tactile and vibrant, with a construction of accumulation and subtraction that recalls languages related to Informalism and neo-expressionism. The face is not depicted in a naturalistic way, but is broken down and rebuilt through a sign-based synthesis that favors emotional intensity over formal definition.
Concept:
The work explores the theme of identity as an unstable and fragmented process. The face, rather than asserting itself as a defined presence, dissolves into the material, suggesting a condition of isolation and inner tension. In keeping with the artist’s poetics, discomfort becomes a creative engine: the painting takes shape as a space of conflict between light and darkness, between appearance and annihilation, returning a deeply introspective and unsettling view of the individual.
Provenance: From the artist’s collection.
Details
Artist
PAArtist
Sold with frame
No
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
THE PUNK 3
Technique
Mixed technique
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
60 cm
Width
50 cm
Weight
200 g
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Neo-Expressionism
Period
2020+
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