Des visages, des figures

Nina Pettinato, 2022 · acrylic on canvas · 120 × 160 cm

Work at a Glance
A large-format acrylic painting on canvas, created in 2022 in a horizontal format, featuring precisely drawn contours and fluidly layered planes of color.

How to Read the Painting?
Warm terracotta and delicate dusty rose spread out like a human landscape, traversed by light-blue-bordered lines that twist, intertwine, and then unravel – like faces one believes to recognize, yet can never quite fully grasp. The forms evoke physicality, intimacy, perhaps even touch: soft, yet simultaneously framed by dark – almost black – contours that lend tension and depth to the composition as a whole. The painting speaks to the ambiguity of human appearance –to what we reveal, and what we conceal.

Who is this Painting for?
'Des visages, des figures' is a work that fills a space with a quiet, elegant intensity – ideal for collectors seeking art that continues to captivate them anew, time and again.