Enigma - The Face I Cannot Show

Le visage que je ne peux montrer

I stand where the painted world meets the real one, neither fully inside nor out, wearing the dark that fits me best. A green apple blooms where my face should be - calm, inevitable, as though it always belonged there. Behind me, ochre cliffs burn against turquoise water beneath a bruised and heavy sky, a landscape I carry like a memory I cannot quite enter. My coat falls in shadowed folds, loose and unhurried. The brushstrokes around me breathe and shiver, while my white shoes remain stubbornly ordinary. I have learned to let the fruit speak for me.

-- Dimensions: 100 x 75 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' acrylic 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.