Xiaoning Yu - Silent Icon
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Xiaoning Yu's Silent Icon, an original 2026 acrylic painting on canvas (50 × 40 cm) portraying a frontal portrait with a green, purple and yellow palette, signed by hand and in excellent condition, produced in Italy with a certificate of authenticity included and tracked international shipping.
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“Silent Icon 01” is part of the Synthetic Identities series, a continually evolving visual inquiry into contemporary identity and its transformation into image. The work presents a frontal face, suspended between presence and emotional distance. The expression is neutral, almost immobile, while the chromatic surface explodes in intense and unnatural colors. This contrast creates a visual tension between what is seen and what is perceived.
The portrait does not represent a real person, but a constructed figure: an icon of contemporary identity, in which color becomes emotion and silence transforms into language. In an era dominated by images and digital representation, Silent Icon 01 reflects on how identity is shaped, filtered, and reduced to surface.
More than a psychological portrait, this work is configured as a visual presence: stable, frontal, and synthetic. It invites the observer to question what it means today to “be visible” and how much of what we see is authentic versus how much is artificially constructed.
Materials: acrylic paint (Maimeri, Italy), non-toxic
Support: canvas on wooden frame (made in Italy)
Finish: satin final varnish
Dimensions: 50 × 40 × 1.5 cm
Year: 2026, Italy
Authenticity: certificate of authenticity signed included
Shipping: careful packaging and tracked international shipping
“Silent Icon 01” is part of the Synthetic Identities series, a continually evolving visual inquiry into contemporary identity and its transformation into image. The work presents a frontal face, suspended between presence and emotional distance. The expression is neutral, almost immobile, while the chromatic surface explodes in intense and unnatural colors. This contrast creates a visual tension between what is seen and what is perceived.
The portrait does not represent a real person, but a constructed figure: an icon of contemporary identity, in which color becomes emotion and silence transforms into language. In an era dominated by images and digital representation, Silent Icon 01 reflects on how identity is shaped, filtered, and reduced to surface.
More than a psychological portrait, this work is configured as a visual presence: stable, frontal, and synthetic. It invites the observer to question what it means today to “be visible” and how much of what we see is authentic versus how much is artificially constructed.
Materials: acrylic paint (Maimeri, Italy), non-toxic
Support: canvas on wooden frame (made in Italy)
Finish: satin final varnish
Dimensions: 50 × 40 × 1.5 cm
Year: 2026, Italy
Authenticity: certificate of authenticity signed included
Shipping: careful packaging and tracked international shipping
Details
Artist
Xiaoning Yu
Edition
Original
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Direct from the artist
Sold with frame
No
Title of artwork
Silent Icon
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Green, Purple, Yellow
Height
50 cm
Width
40 cm
Weight
360 g
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Classical
Period
2020+
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