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Nush Menna presents Tre di Spade, an original oil on canvas (100 × 70 cm) from the Archetipi Contemporanei series, dated 2026, signed and in excellent condition, produced in Italy in the contemporary style with a pop culture depiction and delivered directly by the artist, shipped rolled with an authenticity certificate and final protective varnish.
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Three of Swords
Nush Menna
Oil on canvas
100 × 70 cm
2026
Series: Contemporary Archetypes
Exhibition and research project for the gallery
Three of Swords belongs to the painterly series Contemporary Archetypes, an artistic research project conceived for the gallery’s exhibition context, through which Nush Menna reinterprets the archetypes of the Tarot as psychological, symbolic, and universal figures of the contemporary human being.
The work draws inspiration from the Minor Arcana card Three of Swords, traditionally associated with emotional wound, loss, and the pain of separation. In this vision, however, pain is not depicted as a condemnation, but as a threshold of transformation. The gaze of the figure is direct, lucid, and aware: there is no surrender, but presence. The wound becomes knowledge, the trauma becomes passage, the limit becomes a possibility for evolution.
The three swords pressed on the chest evoke the experiences that traverse every human being: love, loss, and rebirth. The butterfly, a symbol of metamorphosis, introduces the theme of inner transformation, while the dialogue between light and shadow recalls the path of integrating the most fragile and hidden parts of identity.
With the Contemporary Archetypes series, Nush Menna develops a project destined for galleries and contemporary collecting, in which traditional archetypes are reread through present-day figures. Each work thus becomes a symbolic portrait and an inquiry into the unconscious, emotional memory, and the processes of transformation that define the human experience.
Title: Three of Swords
Artist: Nush Menna
Series: Contemporary Archetypes
Project: Painterly research for gallery
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 × 70 cm
Year: 2026
Shipped in tube
Certificate of authenticity
Final protective varnish
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 TranslateThree of Swords
Nush Menna
Oil on canvas
100 × 70 cm
2026
Series: Contemporary Archetypes
Exhibition and research project for the gallery
Three of Swords belongs to the painterly series Contemporary Archetypes, an artistic research project conceived for the gallery’s exhibition context, through which Nush Menna reinterprets the archetypes of the Tarot as psychological, symbolic, and universal figures of the contemporary human being.
The work draws inspiration from the Minor Arcana card Three of Swords, traditionally associated with emotional wound, loss, and the pain of separation. In this vision, however, pain is not depicted as a condemnation, but as a threshold of transformation. The gaze of the figure is direct, lucid, and aware: there is no surrender, but presence. The wound becomes knowledge, the trauma becomes passage, the limit becomes a possibility for evolution.
The three swords pressed on the chest evoke the experiences that traverse every human being: love, loss, and rebirth. The butterfly, a symbol of metamorphosis, introduces the theme of inner transformation, while the dialogue between light and shadow recalls the path of integrating the most fragile and hidden parts of identity.
With the Contemporary Archetypes series, Nush Menna develops a project destined for galleries and contemporary collecting, in which traditional archetypes are reread through present-day figures. Each work thus becomes a symbolic portrait and an inquiry into the unconscious, emotional memory, and the processes of transformation that define the human experience.
Title: Three of Swords
Artist: Nush Menna
Series: Contemporary Archetypes
Project: Painterly research for gallery
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 × 70 cm
Year: 2026
Shipped in tube
Certificate of authenticity
Final protective varnish
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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Artist
nush menna
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Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Tre di spade
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
100 cm
Width
70 cm
Depiction/theme
Pop Culture
Style
Contemporary
Period
2010-2020
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