Bones

Nina Pettinato, 2021 · acrylic on canvas · 160 × 120 cm

Work at a Glance
A large-format acrylic painting on canvas, created in 2021 in a vertical format, featuring a richly layered painting technique and a palpable – almost sculptural – surface texture.

How to Read the Painting?
Delicate peach, faded rose, and creamy beige weave together into a dense, breathing fabric, traversed by dark green tendrils and bold blue lines that wind through the image like nerve pathways or roots. The composition evokes something deeply organic – the quiet inner life of nature, buried structures striving to break into the light, and the delicate fragility of that which sustains us. Small touches of rose and lavender bloom like memories emerging from the luminous background, lending the work an almost botanical poetry.

Who is this Painting for?
'Bones' invites the viewer to look slowly and to discover ever-new layers – a work for those who value depth and whose home is meant to tell a story that goes beyond the obvious.