Inès Rouissi - Vortex Kintsugi

INÈS ROUISSI — VORTEX KINTSUGI — 2023

Unique 3D Sculptural Painting — Kintsugi Collection
Offered Without Reserve Price

What if our fractures were not something to hide, but the very places where light enters?

In Vortex Kintsugi, contemporary artist Inès Rouissi transforms the philosophy of Japanese Kintsugi—the art of revealing repaired fractures with gold—into a powerful abstract composition exploring resilience, transformation and renewal.

Concentric movements of emerald, deep forest green, jade and mineral sage spiral toward a hypnotic central point. Between these chromatic currents, hand-worked passages of gold pigment rise physically from the canvas, creating a genuine three-dimensional relief.

The gold is not simply a colour.

It becomes matter, light and the memory of a fracture transformed into strength.

Viewed from the front, the composition draws the eye progressively toward its centre, evoking a vortex, an ancient tree ring, an eye or an imaginary portal. From an angle, the experience changes: the raised golden surfaces capture ambient light, producing evolving shadows, highlights and reflections throughout the day.

At the outer edges, fragments of gold escape from the circular structure and disperse across the dark background like particles released from the vortex. This deliberate rupture gives the composition its emotional tension: something has been fractured, reconstructed and ultimately made more visible through transformation.

Its physical depth and changing metallic reflections cannot be fully conveyed through photography alone.

THE KINTSUGI COLLECTION

Through her Kintsugi Collection, Inès Rouissi explores the possibility of finding strength and beauty within imperfection.

Rather than reproducing traditional Japanese ceramics, the artist translates the philosophy of Kintsugi into her own contemporary visual language.

The fracture becomes a golden line.
The line becomes a circle.
The circle becomes movement.
The movement becomes a vortex.

The wound is no longer concealed. It becomes the most luminous element of the composition.

THE ARTIST

Born in 1977, Inès Rouissi is a Mediterranean artist-researcher whose practice develops at the intersection of material experimentation, spatial perception, light and abstraction.

Her work investigates relationships between interior and exterior space, structure, texture, movement and perception. Combining intuition with continuous experimentation, Rouissi creates artworks designed not merely to occupy a wall, but to interact actively with their environment.

Her Mediterranean sensibility can be perceived through her attention to light, organic movement and materiality. Within the Kintsugi Collection, this research acquires a symbolic dimension: rupture is transformed into balance, and vulnerability becomes a visible source of strength.

A UNIQUE, ENTIRELY HAND-CREATED ARTWORK

Vortex Kintsugi is an original, one-of-a-kind artwork—not a print, reproduction or edition.

Every acrylic layer, circular movement and raised golden element was individually formed by hand. Variations in relief and surface are intentional characteristics of the artist’s process and contribute to the uniqueness of the work.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Artist: Inès Rouissi
Title: Vortex Kintsugi
Year: 2023
Series: Kintsugi Collection
Medium: Acrylic and gold pigment on canvas
Technique: Mixed acrylic painting with hand-worked sculptural 3D gold relief
Support: Canvas
Dimensions: 50 × 50 × 3 cm
Rarity: Unique original artwork — 1/1
Condition: Excellent original studio condition
Signature: Hand-signed on the front and reverse
Frame: Not included
Certificate of Authenticity: Included, issued by Abstract Art Gallery
Provenance: Artist / Abstract Art Gallery, Riga, Latvia
Auction: Offered without reserve price

CERTIFICATE AND LIFETIME GUARANTEE

The artwork is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity issued by Abstract Art Gallery, together with documented provenance.

Abstract Art Gallery guarantees the artwork’s authenticity and provenance for life and provides long-term collector support regarding conservation, maintenance and presentation.

PROFESSIONAL DELIVERY

Because its raised gold relief is an essential and delicate part of the composition, the artwork will be delivered completely flat. It will never be rolled or folded.

The shipment will be professionally prepared, tracked and fully insured during transportation.

At 50 × 50 × 3 cm, Vortex Kintsugi combines a concentrated format with a remarkably powerful presence. From a distance, it appears meditative; at closer range, it reveals an intricate landscape of matter, light and transformation.

A vortex can pull everything toward darkness.

Inès Rouissi reverses that idea: at the centre of this vortex, what survives is gold.