Enigma - Two Rooms, One Breath

Duas Salas, Um Suspiro

I stand where the world splits - warm amber beneath one foot, cold blue beneath the other, and I do not choose. My hair holds the colour of something I once believed in. Behind me, a small portrait watches from the wall, already knowing how this ends. A teacup waits on one side; a dark teapot on the other. The curtain breathes without wind. My lace gloves keep certain things from escaping. The brushwork blurs my edges as if I myself am undecided about where I begin.

-- 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' 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.

Sobre o Artista
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.