Yastarine - avant l'image





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Artist Yastarine presents 'avant l'image', an original 2020 acrylic texture painting on cotton canvas 75 × 115 cm in the optical art style, signed by hand with a certificate of authenticity, shipped from Belgium and ready to hang on a 2 cm wooden frame.
Description from the seller
artist: Yastarine 2020
Title: "before the Image"
Acrylic textured painting on cotton canvas 75x115 cm
TITLE — CONCEPTUAL EXPLANATION
"Before the Image", this title names an impossible moment to grasp: the moment that precedes all creation, all form, all decision. Neither pure chaos nor established order. The in-between. This fragment of time where something is about to be born — but does not yet exist.
MAIN DESCRIPTION
Before the Image is a monumental work that captures the suspended moment between chaos and form, that vertiginous moment where matter hesitates before becoming an image.
On a cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame (75 × 115 cm), the composition unfolds like an emerging architecture: powerful geometric structures rise from a textured background, evoking both the rigor of an architectural plan and the organic fluidity of a natural formation.
The snowy, white, dense contour draws the edges of a central form with almost mineral precision — as if the material itself had decided its own limit. Inside, golden highlights cross the composition like flashes of light frozen in the matter, revealing an unsuspected depth beneath the textured surface.
The work plays on a permanent tension between:
- Geometry and the living
- Original chaos and emerging order
- The deep shadow and the golden light
- The raw material and the finished form
"Before the Image" is not a representation, it is a threshold experience. The work places you exactly where creation begins.
ARTIST'S INTENT NOTE
This work was born from a simple and vertiginous question: "What happens in the exact moment that precedes the image?"
Not emptiness. Not yet form. Something else: a tension, a promise, an energy seeking its direction.
In working with the relief, the accumulated matter layer by layer, I wanted to render visible this invisible moment. The texture is not decorative; it is temporal. Each thickness is a hesitation, each ridge a decision about to be made.
The golden highlights are not an ornament; they are the light of moment zero, the light that precedes everything.
YEAR EVENT LOCATION
2020 Artist meeting in Uccle Cultural Center of Uccle
2021 Geometrically Yours SPF EMPLOI institutional exhibition
2022 ART XXL Galerie 55 Brussels
Practical information
Shipped on a 2 cm wooden frame, ready to hang
Signed bottom right by Yastarine
Certificate of authenticity provided with the work
Shipped from Belgium
Very good condition
artist: Yastarine 2020
Title: "before the Image"
Acrylic textured painting on cotton canvas 75x115 cm
TITLE — CONCEPTUAL EXPLANATION
"Before the Image", this title names an impossible moment to grasp: the moment that precedes all creation, all form, all decision. Neither pure chaos nor established order. The in-between. This fragment of time where something is about to be born — but does not yet exist.
MAIN DESCRIPTION
Before the Image is a monumental work that captures the suspended moment between chaos and form, that vertiginous moment where matter hesitates before becoming an image.
On a cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame (75 × 115 cm), the composition unfolds like an emerging architecture: powerful geometric structures rise from a textured background, evoking both the rigor of an architectural plan and the organic fluidity of a natural formation.
The snowy, white, dense contour draws the edges of a central form with almost mineral precision — as if the material itself had decided its own limit. Inside, golden highlights cross the composition like flashes of light frozen in the matter, revealing an unsuspected depth beneath the textured surface.
The work plays on a permanent tension between:
- Geometry and the living
- Original chaos and emerging order
- The deep shadow and the golden light
- The raw material and the finished form
"Before the Image" is not a representation, it is a threshold experience. The work places you exactly where creation begins.
ARTIST'S INTENT NOTE
This work was born from a simple and vertiginous question: "What happens in the exact moment that precedes the image?"
Not emptiness. Not yet form. Something else: a tension, a promise, an energy seeking its direction.
In working with the relief, the accumulated matter layer by layer, I wanted to render visible this invisible moment. The texture is not decorative; it is temporal. Each thickness is a hesitation, each ridge a decision about to be made.
The golden highlights are not an ornament; they are the light of moment zero, the light that precedes everything.
YEAR EVENT LOCATION
2020 Artist meeting in Uccle Cultural Center of Uccle
2021 Geometrically Yours SPF EMPLOI institutional exhibition
2022 ART XXL Galerie 55 Brussels
Practical information
Shipped on a 2 cm wooden frame, ready to hang
Signed bottom right by Yastarine
Certificate of authenticity provided with the work
Shipped from Belgium
Very good condition

