"PEARLS" oil on canvas 100x80 cm 0,5 cm. thick white wood lath frame (see last picture) Artist : Annalisa Avancini -Awarded third prize at the BP Portrait Award at National Portrait Gallery - London ,in 2009, with additional partecipations in the 2010, 2011 and 2018. -Winner of the ARC Acquisition Award at the Meam Museum in Barcellona for " Figurativas 2023" She as partecipated in numerous solo and group exhibition, her works are held in public and private collections. Annalisa Avancini's work develops within a profound dialogue between past and present, where the memory of classical traditions is intertwined with a contemporary sensibility. The human figure is at the center of her research, not as a mere subject, but as a territory of exploration of identity understood in its most fragile and changeable dimension. His portraits thus become mirrors in which vulnerability, strength, sacredness and everyday life are reflected. Avancini adopts a painting technique that recalls classicism in terms of compositional rigor and attention to detail, but which is continually subverted by a modern tension. The light and nuances, delicate and calibrated, seem to want to capture a suspended time, where the bodies evoke an aesthetic memory rooted in ancient archetypes and yet tell stories that are profoundly current. His figures, in fact, do not belong to a precise era; they are suspended in a liminal space, poised between the ideal and the imperfect, between the eternal and the contingent. There is a constant dialectic between opposites in his work: the delicacy of the tones clashes with the power of the gazes, the apparent static nature of the poses contrasts with the emotional intensity that emerges from the pictorial surface. In this unstable balance lies the strength of his works, capable of questioning the observer, inviting him to reflect on the complexity of being human. Avancini's painting does not seek to idealize, but to reveal. The beauty that emerges from his paintings does not reside in perfection, but in the seemingly marginal details, in the cracks that reveal the most authentic truth of his subjects, in knowing how to make the invisible visible and how to transform each face into a timeless tale.