Enigma - Where I Come Apart






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Original oil painting by Enigma, titled 'Where I Come Apart', measures 120 x 80 x 2.5 cm, hand signed with COA, created in 2026 in Italy, in excellent condition, mounted on a wooden chassis with no external frame and painted edges ready for display.
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Where I Come Apart
I stand on pieces of a world that no longer fits together, forest and stone and a warm light torn apart at the seams. My coat falls like a shadow made solid, and below me another self hangs upside down, my own face turning away from me at the hem of the dark. I do not know which of us is real, the one standing or the one falling. Perhaps I have always been both, stitched from fragments that never quite meet, never quite forgive each other.
-- Dimensions: 120 x 80 x 2.5 cm
-- Mounting: Professionally hand-stretched on a wooden chassis.
-- Framing: None (no external frame); painted edges ready for display.
-- Medium: Premium artists' oil colors on fine canvas.
-- Style: Psychological Surrealism with a smooth brush texture.
-- Authentication: Signed 'Enigma' on reverse with title and year.
-- Condition: Pristine; dispatched from studio-affiliated workshop.
-- COA: Hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity included.
-- Shipping: Custom protective packaging; Catawiki Smart Shipping with full tracking and insurance.
About the Artist
Enigma is an Italian surrealist who paints their own likeness into worlds of pure imagination - not to tell a story, but to ask a question.
The figures are deliberately genderless, blending masculine and feminine so no single identity stands between the viewer and the canvas.
Reality bends through frames within frames: rooms open onto other rooms, other skies, other selves, rendered in smooth, luminous brushwork and blocks of bold, contrasting color.
Each painting is a dreamscape where memory, symbol, and self dissolve into one another - and every canvas is one of a kind, never repeated.
Where I Come Apart
I stand on pieces of a world that no longer fits together, forest and stone and a warm light torn apart at the seams. My coat falls like a shadow made solid, and below me another self hangs upside down, my own face turning away from me at the hem of the dark. I do not know which of us is real, the one standing or the one falling. Perhaps I have always been both, stitched from fragments that never quite meet, never quite forgive each other.
-- Dimensions: 120 x 80 x 2.5 cm
-- Mounting: Professionally hand-stretched on a wooden chassis.
-- Framing: None (no external frame); painted edges ready for display.
-- Medium: Premium artists' oil colors on fine canvas.
-- Style: Psychological Surrealism with a smooth brush texture.
-- Authentication: Signed 'Enigma' on reverse with title and year.
-- Condition: Pristine; dispatched from studio-affiliated workshop.
-- COA: Hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity included.
-- Shipping: Custom protective packaging; Catawiki Smart Shipping with full tracking and insurance.
About the Artist
Enigma is an Italian surrealist who paints their own likeness into worlds of pure imagination - not to tell a story, but to ask a question.
The figures are deliberately genderless, blending masculine and feminine so no single identity stands between the viewer and the canvas.
Reality bends through frames within frames: rooms open onto other rooms, other skies, other selves, rendered in smooth, luminous brushwork and blocks of bold, contrasting color.
Each painting is a dreamscape where memory, symbol, and self dissolve into one another - and every canvas is one of a kind, never repeated.
