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Unique mixed-media on canvas by ALBA-MADA, titled Ex voto erotico, signed by hand, 2026, 35 × 43 cm (frame included, about 2 cm thick), edition Unica, Italy, in excellent condition.
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ALBA-MADA
“Ex voto erotico”
Mixed media on stretched canvas with material assemblage.
Fabric applied and frame in live wood painted white and worked with a tactile, handmade texture.
Overall dimensions with frame: 35 × 43 cm.
Thickness: about 2 cm.
Unique work.
ALBA-MADA works on transforming intimate objects into contemporary icons, moving between conceptual minimalism, poetic provocation, and affective memory.
A fragment of everyday private life is stripped from its original function to become a symbolic presence, an emotional relic, a trace of the absent body. The work enters the dialogue of contemporary conceptual art and neo ready-made, where the common object loses its practical meaning to assume a new aesthetic and psychological tension.
The transparent lightness of the black fabric decorated with tiny hearts creates a strong contrast with the live wood frame painted white, handcrafted with a tactile surface that evokes the organic veins of skin and nature. The white becomes here an ambiguous symbol of purity, silence, and suspension, entering into visual tension with the black central element and with the almost childlike details of the small hearts and pink bows, deliberately delicate and imperfect, like emotional fragments left uncontrolled.
This balance between irony, apparent innocence, desire, and provocation generates an essential yet highly evocative image, where formal minimalism coexists with a subtle emotional and psychological charge.
The work plays with the concept of absence and presence: what would normally belong to private intimacy is exposed as a contemporary symbol, suspended between vulnerability, affective memory, and pop-conceptual language.
Minimalist aesthetics, strong visual impact, and instantly recognizable identity make this work particularly interesting for collectors of contemporary art, pop-conceptual art, and contemporary conceptual assemblages.
Unique piece signed by ALBA-MADA.
Careful shipping with protective materials and the use of recycled cardboard in an environmentally friendly approach.
ALBA-MADA is a contemporary artist who works between material assemblage, conceptual minimalism, and neo-pop language.
Her research focuses on transforming everyday, intimate objects into symbolic presence, exploring the boundary between affective memory, irony, and contemporary vulnerability.
Through real materials, essential surfaces, and clear visual contrasts, ALBA-MADA’s works investigate the relationship between the absent body, identity, and emotional traces left by objects.
Her visual language unites delicacy and provocation, constructing images suspended between minimalist aesthetics, poetic ready-made, and emotional tension.
Her works are unique pieces handmade.
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 TranslateALBA-MADA
“Ex voto erotico”
Mixed media on stretched canvas with material assemblage.
Fabric applied and frame in live wood painted white and worked with a tactile, handmade texture.
Overall dimensions with frame: 35 × 43 cm.
Thickness: about 2 cm.
Unique work.
ALBA-MADA works on transforming intimate objects into contemporary icons, moving between conceptual minimalism, poetic provocation, and affective memory.
A fragment of everyday private life is stripped from its original function to become a symbolic presence, an emotional relic, a trace of the absent body. The work enters the dialogue of contemporary conceptual art and neo ready-made, where the common object loses its practical meaning to assume a new aesthetic and psychological tension.
The transparent lightness of the black fabric decorated with tiny hearts creates a strong contrast with the live wood frame painted white, handcrafted with a tactile surface that evokes the organic veins of skin and nature. The white becomes here an ambiguous symbol of purity, silence, and suspension, entering into visual tension with the black central element and with the almost childlike details of the small hearts and pink bows, deliberately delicate and imperfect, like emotional fragments left uncontrolled.
This balance between irony, apparent innocence, desire, and provocation generates an essential yet highly evocative image, where formal minimalism coexists with a subtle emotional and psychological charge.
The work plays with the concept of absence and presence: what would normally belong to private intimacy is exposed as a contemporary symbol, suspended between vulnerability, affective memory, and pop-conceptual language.
Minimalist aesthetics, strong visual impact, and instantly recognizable identity make this work particularly interesting for collectors of contemporary art, pop-conceptual art, and contemporary conceptual assemblages.
Unique piece signed by ALBA-MADA.
Careful shipping with protective materials and the use of recycled cardboard in an environmentally friendly approach.
ALBA-MADA is a contemporary artist who works between material assemblage, conceptual minimalism, and neo-pop language.
Her research focuses on transforming everyday, intimate objects into symbolic presence, exploring the boundary between affective memory, irony, and contemporary vulnerability.
Through real materials, essential surfaces, and clear visual contrasts, ALBA-MADA’s works investigate the relationship between the absent body, identity, and emotional traces left by objects.
Her visual language unites delicacy and provocation, constructing images suspended between minimalist aesthetics, poetic ready-made, and emotional tension.
Her works are unique pieces handmade.
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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Era
After 2000
Manufacturer/brand
ALBA-MADA
Sold by
Direct from the designer
Country of origin
Italy
Style
Contemporary
Material
Canvas
Artist
ALBA-MADA
Title of artwork
“Ex voto erotico”
Signature
Hand signed
Edition
Unique
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
43 cm
Width
35 cm
Depth
2 cm
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