Dinu Corina - Before the Grid Breaks

Condition: As New
Material: Acrylic paint, rice paper collage, canvas
Colour: Crimson red, olive green, raw gold, deep black, navy
Shipping method: Courier, fully insured, professional packaging
Something was holding together — and then it wasn't.
"Before the Grid Breaks" is built from accumulated tension: geometric fields that push against each other, crimson planes pressing through olive and black, circles cut open by diagonal lines as though the composition itself is mid-fracture. Rice paper collage is worked into the acrylic surface, softening edges where the paint has worn through — adding a fragility that contradicts the boldness of the structure. The result is a painting that feels suspended at a precise moment: ordered enough to read as architecture, unstable enough to feel like collapse.
The palette — deep red, military green, raw gold, charcoal black — carries weight without decoration. There is no relief here, no soft passage. Every zone of the canvas holds its ground.
Dimensions: 60 × 60 cm
Year: 2023
Frame: Floating hidden wood frame
Edition: Unique — 1/1
About the artist:
Corina Dinu (b. 1979, Romania) studied fine arts and design, including at Istituto Marangoni. Working across painting, sculpture, and fashion, her practice explores material tension, layered identity, and the boundary between structure and instability. Her works are held in private collections internationally.