ESCA - sospesi 16

"In vain does one fish, if the hook has no bait!"
An old nursery rhyme I heard some time ago.
A time-worn jug, a kitchen towel and a rusty ladle hang from a large fishing hook, waiting to be discovered, trying to show their best side, but what will be their fate? Only the viewer of the work can find a happy ending ... or not!

I made this work on a canvas, I treated the background by superimposing several layers of colour to obtain a single sugar-paper blue one, I traced the outline of the painting with chalk and only then did I start painting with oil colours.
I use oil colour by overlaying many thin layers of appropriately diluted colour to create the effects I want.
Once perfectly dry, I finished the surface with a final coat of varnish to make it UV-resistant.

SOSPESI is the series I started painting in 2022, with which I wish to reflect on the suspended moments that life places before us and, through art, overcome the barrier of time, to give value to each moment.

The work does not have a frame but is ready to hang.

The work is signed on the front and back and will be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

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