École européene (XIX) - Les étranges créatures des profondeurs

- Oil on board.

- The human mind, captivated in its own rational prison, succumbs with a spasm to the abysmal architecture of crustaceans, those quagmires of chitin that seem forged in a delirium of Mannerist goldsmithing. It is terrifying and, therefore, irresistible to contemplate the display of their deformed armor — a labyrinth of articulated claws, scales that refract cold lights, and pedipalps that throb with an archaic urgency — where nature abandons classical proportion to embrace an organic and monstrous baroque. In their fisionomy there is a kind of geometry of dread that, however, guards inside it a treasure of unusual softness: that milky, tremulous flesh whose truth is revealed in a iodized flavor, a marine echo of a delicacy almost heretical that dissolves the hardness of the carapace into an experience of sophisticated languor.

- Unframed image dimensions: 82 x 34 cm / 92 x 45 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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