Nush Menna - La soglia
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Description from the seller
Artist: Nush Menna
Title: The Threshold
Technique: Oil painting on canvas
Dimensions: 42 × 30 cm
Year: 2026
Conditions: Excellent.
Certificate of authenticity: Included.
Final protective varnish: Applied to ensure greater protection of the work over time and preserve its chromatic brilliance.
Shipping: The work will be shipped rolled in a professional rigid tube, a safe solution that reduces the risk of damage during international transport. The packaging will be made prioritizing, where possible, recycled and recyclable materials, to reduce environmental impact without compromising the safety of the work.
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Critical description
The Threshold explores the suspended moment between the inner world and the external world. The face, crossed by two different luminous tones, suggests a silent transformation more than a simple figurative representation. The heterochromatic gaze and the veil in deep turquoise tones become symbolic elements of a passage, of an emotional boundary in which identity, memory and change coexist.
The work unites a contemporary figurative language with psychological research, privileging expressive intensity over narrative. Glazes, the contrast between light and shadow and the care of the flesh tones accompany the observer toward an intimate dialogue with the painting, leaving interpretation open to all.
Made entirely by hand with professional oil colors, the work belongs to the most recent painting research of Nush Menna, focused on the investigation of identity, transformation and the archetypal dimension of the human figure. Each painting is a unique piece, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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: Nush Menna
Title: The Threshold
Technique: Oil painting on canvas
Dimensions: 42 × 30 cm
Year: 2026
Conditions: Excellent.
Certificate of authenticity: Included.
Final protective varnish: Applied to ensure greater protection of the work over time and preserve its chromatic brilliance.
Shipping: The work will be shipped rolled in a professional rigid tube, a safe solution that reduces the risk of damage during international transport. The packaging will be made prioritizing, where possible, recycled and recyclable materials, to reduce environmental impact without compromising the safety of the work.
⸻
Critical description
The Threshold explores the suspended moment between the inner world and the external world. The face, crossed by two different luminous tones, suggests a silent transformation more than a simple figurative representation. The heterochromatic gaze and the veil in deep turquoise tones become symbolic elements of a passage, of an emotional boundary in which identity, memory and change coexist.
The work unites a contemporary figurative language with psychological research, privileging expressive intensity over narrative. Glazes, the contrast between light and shadow and the care of the flesh tones accompany the observer toward an intimate dialogue with the painting, leaving interpretation open to all.
Made entirely by hand with professional oil colors, the work belongs to the most recent painting research of Nush Menna, focused on the investigation of identity, transformation and the archetypal dimension of the human figure. Each painting is a unique piece, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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
Sold with frame
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Edition
Original
Title of artwork
La soglia
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
42 cm
Width
30 cm
Style
Contemporary
Period
2020+
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