Mixed Pickles of Life (Erdbeeren und Zitronen)

Nina Pettinato, 2025 · acrylic on canvas · 100 × 80 cm

Work at a Glance
A medium-format acrylic painting on canvas, created in 2025 in a vertical format, featuring broad, physically layered bands, fine textured grooves within the paint application, and luminous glazed surfaces.

How to Read the Painting?
Creamy antique rose, warm mauve, and deep wine red wind their way across the canvas in generous, sensual curves – at times smooth and silky, at others textured and traversed by fine parallel traces, as if the forms visibly bore within them the very history of their own creation. Cobalt-blue planes flash out from between the bands like unexpected twists of fate, while a luminous orange glows in the depths like a little secret. Life as a colorful jar of mixed pickles – sweet, sour, sometimes spicy, always rich.

Who is this Painting for?
'Mixed Pickles of Life' is a work brimming with warmth, humor, and sensual abundance – a piece that serves as a reminder that the diversity of life is its greatest beauty.