Enigma - The Face I Cannot Show

見せられない私の顔

私は、描かれた世界と現実が交わる場所に立つ。内部にも外部にも完全には入りきらず、私に最も似合う暗色をまとっている。私の顔があるべき場所には緑のリンゴが花のように――穏やかで、必然的で、まるでそこに元から属していたかのよう。私の背後では、黄土色の崖がターコイズの水面に燃え、傷ついたかさぶたの空の下で、私は記憶のように抱え込んでいて、完全には踏み入れられない風景だ。私のコートは影のしわ寄せの中に落ち、緩やかで焦らない。 私の周りの筆致は呼吸し、震え、私の白い靴だけは頑固に普通のままだ。私は果実に語らせることを学んだ。

-- Dimensions: 100 x 75 x 2.5 cm
-- Mounting: 木製シャーシにて専門的に手張り済み。
-- 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.