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Artwork by ALBA-MADA titled IMMACOLATA VOGUIANA — BODY MEMORY, a unique 38 × 38 cm mixed-media piece on a gypsum and plywood relief with a textile element, hand-signed, 2026, in excellent condition with a natural wood frame and certificate of authenticity.
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Artist: ALBA-MADA
Title of the work: IMMACOLATA VOGUIANA
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 38 × 38 cm
Technique: Mixed media with relief on a gypsum and plywood support, original textile element applied to the support and natural wood frame.
Work: Unique piece, signed.
Certificate of authenticity: Included.
A unique contemporary work that combines tactile art, everyday object and symbolic language in a suspended composition between intimacy, fashion and visual memory. An original leopard-print “Vogue” bra is transformed into an artistic and installational element, detached from its ordinary function to become an icon, a cultural fragment, and an evocative presence.
The relief surface, created with plaster and plywood, builds a minimal geometric structure that dialogues with the fabric, amplifying its aesthetic and conceptual tension. The intervention deliberately preserves real and imperfect traces of daily life: the small element fixed with paper tape and the fragment of a silica gel packet — usually used to preserve fabrics and colors — become an integral part of the work, turning marginal details into poetic and symbolic signs.
The piece plays on the contrast between luxury and fragility, between absent body and evoked presence, between fashion aesthetics and contemporary relic. The natural wood frame reinforces the balance between essentiality and sophistication, maintaining an elegant and minimalist language close to contemporary conceptual art and material installations.
A work that resonates with Pop Art, fashion culture, ready-made and contemporary minimalism, while retaining a strong personal and immediately recognizable visual identity.
Careful shipping with recycled cardboard and reduced use of plastics in respect of the environment.
ALBA-MADA works on transforming intimate objects into contemporary icons, moving between conceptual minimalism, poetic provocation and affective memory.
A daily private fragment is taken from its original function to become a symbolic presence, an emotional relic, a trace of the absent body. The work situates itself in the dialogue of contemporary conceptual art and neo ready-made, where a common object loses its practical meaning to assume a new aesthetic and psychological tension.
The translucent lightness of the black fabric decorated with small hearts creates a strong contrast with the live wooden frame painted white, handmade with a textured surface that recalls the organic veins of leather 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 unguarded.
This balance between irony, apparent innocence, desire and provocation generates an essential yet strongly evocative image, where formal minimalism coexists with a subtle emotional and psychological charge.
The work plays with the concept of absence and presence: what normally belongs to private intimacy is exposed as a contemporary symbol, suspended between vulnerability, affective memory and pop-conceptual language.
Minimal aesthetics, strong visual impact and immediately recognizable identity make this work particularly interesting for collectors of contemporary art, pop-conceptual art and contemporary assemblages.
Unique piece signed ALBA-MADA.
Careful shipping with protective materials and use of recycled cardboard in respect of the environment.
ALBA-MADA is a contemporary artist who works between material assemblage, conceptual minimalism and neo-pop language.
Her research focuses on transforming ordinary and intimate objects into symbolic presence, exploring the boundary between affective memory, irony and contemporary vulnerability.
Through real materials, essential surfaces and stark visual contrasts, ALBA-MADA’s works investigate the relationship between the absent body, identity and emotional traces left by objects.
Her visual language combines delicacy and provocation, building images suspended between minimalist aesthetics, poetic ready-made and emotional tension.
Her works are unique pieces made by hand.
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 TranslateArtist: ALBA-MADA
Title of the work: IMMACOLATA VOGUIANA
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 38 × 38 cm
Technique: Mixed media with relief on a gypsum and plywood support, original textile element applied to the support and natural wood frame.
Work: Unique piece, signed.
Certificate of authenticity: Included.
A unique contemporary work that combines tactile art, everyday object and symbolic language in a suspended composition between intimacy, fashion and visual memory. An original leopard-print “Vogue” bra is transformed into an artistic and installational element, detached from its ordinary function to become an icon, a cultural fragment, and an evocative presence.
The relief surface, created with plaster and plywood, builds a minimal geometric structure that dialogues with the fabric, amplifying its aesthetic and conceptual tension. The intervention deliberately preserves real and imperfect traces of daily life: the small element fixed with paper tape and the fragment of a silica gel packet — usually used to preserve fabrics and colors — become an integral part of the work, turning marginal details into poetic and symbolic signs.
The piece plays on the contrast between luxury and fragility, between absent body and evoked presence, between fashion aesthetics and contemporary relic. The natural wood frame reinforces the balance between essentiality and sophistication, maintaining an elegant and minimalist language close to contemporary conceptual art and material installations.
A work that resonates with Pop Art, fashion culture, ready-made and contemporary minimalism, while retaining a strong personal and immediately recognizable visual identity.
Careful shipping with recycled cardboard and reduced use of plastics in respect of the environment.
ALBA-MADA works on transforming intimate objects into contemporary icons, moving between conceptual minimalism, poetic provocation and affective memory.
A daily private fragment is taken from its original function to become a symbolic presence, an emotional relic, a trace of the absent body. The work situates itself in the dialogue of contemporary conceptual art and neo ready-made, where a common object loses its practical meaning to assume a new aesthetic and psychological tension.
The translucent lightness of the black fabric decorated with small hearts creates a strong contrast with the live wooden frame painted white, handmade with a textured surface that recalls the organic veins of leather 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 unguarded.
This balance between irony, apparent innocence, desire and provocation generates an essential yet strongly evocative image, where formal minimalism coexists with a subtle emotional and psychological charge.
The work plays with the concept of absence and presence: what normally belongs to private intimacy is exposed as a contemporary symbol, suspended between vulnerability, affective memory and pop-conceptual language.
Minimal aesthetics, strong visual impact and immediately recognizable identity make this work particularly interesting for collectors of contemporary art, pop-conceptual art and contemporary assemblages.
Unique piece signed ALBA-MADA.
Careful shipping with protective materials and use of recycled cardboard in respect of the environment.
ALBA-MADA is a contemporary artist who works between material assemblage, conceptual minimalism and neo-pop language.
Her research focuses on transforming ordinary and intimate objects into symbolic presence, exploring the boundary between affective memory, irony and contemporary vulnerability.
Through real materials, essential surfaces and stark visual contrasts, ALBA-MADA’s works investigate the relationship between the absent body, identity and emotional traces left by objects.
Her visual language combines delicacy and provocation, building images suspended between minimalist aesthetics, poetic ready-made and emotional tension.
Her works are unique pieces made by hand.
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
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Direct from the designer
Country of origin
Italy
Style
Contemporary
Material
Textile, Wood
Artist
ALBA-MADA
Title of artwork
IMMACOLATA VOGUIANA — BODY MEMORY
Signature
Hand signed
Edition
Unique
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
38 cm
Width
38 cm
Depth
2 cm
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