Anna Bila - Love Letter to Turin — XXL
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Anna Bila’s signed original mixed-media painting Love Letter to Turin — XXL (2026), made with pigmented inks and pigments on canvas, measures 125 × 135 cm.
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Love Letter to Turin
Artist: Anna Bila
Dimensions: 125 × 135 cm
Technique: Pigmented inks and pigments on canvas
Series: Not About Flowers
Original contemporary painting
About the Artwork
Love Letter to Turin is part of Anna Bila’s ongoing series Not About Flowers, an exploration of transformation, identity, and the ambiguous space between familiar forms and emerging states of being.
The painting is a deeply personal tribute to Turin, the city where the artist has begun a new chapter of her life. Rather than depicting the city itself, the work captures an emotional relationship with a place — the intensity of new experiences, the vulnerability of change, and the unexpected feeling of belonging.
Vibrant shades of crimson, coral, and pink expand across a dark olive background, surrounding a delicate violet centre. The composition suggests a flower in full bloom, yet its irregular edges, fluid transitions, and unpredictable formations resist botanical representation. It appears simultaneously fragile and exuberant, as if caught in a moment of emotional expansion.
The series emerged from a period of profound personal change. It is not about flowers, but about the state of “not yet, but already” — the space between who we once were and who we have yet to become.
It reflects the experience of growing up when one is already an adult, of internal emigration independent of geographical movement, and of identity undergoing a slow process of restructuring, adaptation, and mutation.
Within this context, Love Letter to Turin becomes an expression of affection for a place that is gradually becoming home. It speaks of the possibility of discovering beauty, connection, and new forms of identity in unfamiliar surroundings.
Working with diluted pigments and inks on canvas, the artist allows water, gravity, and the natural movement of colour to participate in the creative process. Blots, deformations, and irregularities become traces of tension and points of growth.
Rather than presenting transformation as a completed event, the painting captures a continuous process of becoming — one without a definitive endpoint.
A Rare Opportunity to Collect
Works from Anna Bila’s Not About Flowers series are rarely offered at auction. This special selection presents a unique opportunity for collectors to acquire an original painting from one of the artist’s most personal and significant bodies of work.
About the Artist
Anna Bila is a Ukrainian contemporary artist based in Turin, Italy.
Her artistic practice explores memory, identity, emotional transformation, and the experience of displacement. Through experimental painting techniques and organic abstraction, she investigates the fragile relationship between personal experience and visual form.
Her work moves between abstraction and recognizable imagery, focusing on states of transition, vulnerability, and the ongoing reconstruction of identity.
Website: annabila.art
Artwork Details
• Original, one-of-a-kind painting.
• Signed by the artist.
• Certificate of Authenticity included.
• Carefully shipped rolled in a protective tube, without a stretcher frame.
• Free shipping within the European Union.
Love Letter to Turin
Artist: Anna Bila
Dimensions: 125 × 135 cm
Technique: Pigmented inks and pigments on canvas
Series: Not About Flowers
Original contemporary painting
About the Artwork
Love Letter to Turin is part of Anna Bila’s ongoing series Not About Flowers, an exploration of transformation, identity, and the ambiguous space between familiar forms and emerging states of being.
The painting is a deeply personal tribute to Turin, the city where the artist has begun a new chapter of her life. Rather than depicting the city itself, the work captures an emotional relationship with a place — the intensity of new experiences, the vulnerability of change, and the unexpected feeling of belonging.
Vibrant shades of crimson, coral, and pink expand across a dark olive background, surrounding a delicate violet centre. The composition suggests a flower in full bloom, yet its irregular edges, fluid transitions, and unpredictable formations resist botanical representation. It appears simultaneously fragile and exuberant, as if caught in a moment of emotional expansion.
The series emerged from a period of profound personal change. It is not about flowers, but about the state of “not yet, but already” — the space between who we once were and who we have yet to become.
It reflects the experience of growing up when one is already an adult, of internal emigration independent of geographical movement, and of identity undergoing a slow process of restructuring, adaptation, and mutation.
Within this context, Love Letter to Turin becomes an expression of affection for a place that is gradually becoming home. It speaks of the possibility of discovering beauty, connection, and new forms of identity in unfamiliar surroundings.
Working with diluted pigments and inks on canvas, the artist allows water, gravity, and the natural movement of colour to participate in the creative process. Blots, deformations, and irregularities become traces of tension and points of growth.
Rather than presenting transformation as a completed event, the painting captures a continuous process of becoming — one without a definitive endpoint.
A Rare Opportunity to Collect
Works from Anna Bila’s Not About Flowers series are rarely offered at auction. This special selection presents a unique opportunity for collectors to acquire an original painting from one of the artist’s most personal and significant bodies of work.
About the Artist
Anna Bila is a Ukrainian contemporary artist based in Turin, Italy.
Her artistic practice explores memory, identity, emotional transformation, and the experience of displacement. Through experimental painting techniques and organic abstraction, she investigates the fragile relationship between personal experience and visual form.
Her work moves between abstraction and recognizable imagery, focusing on states of transition, vulnerability, and the ongoing reconstruction of identity.
Website: annabila.art
Artwork Details
• Original, one-of-a-kind painting.
• Signed by the artist.
• Certificate of Authenticity included.
• Carefully shipped rolled in a protective tube, without a stretcher frame.
• Free shipping within the European Union.
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Edition
Original
Artist
Anna Bila
Title of artwork
Love Letter to Turin — XXL
Technique
Mixed media
Signature
Signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
125 cm
Width
135 cm
Weight
1 kg
Depiction/theme
Plants and flowers
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Period
2020+
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