Procession (Canyon)
Nina Pettinato, 2025 · acrylic on canvas · 180 × 120 cm
Work at a Glance
A large-format acrylic painting on canvas, created in 2025 in a vertical format, featuring freely flowing, heavily diluted colors and a distinct, organically evolved pictorial structure.
How to Read the Painting?
A mighty current of color – comprising deep crimson, glowing orange, and warm ochre – pours from top to bottom like a living geological formation: a canyon taking shape before the viewer’s very eyes, layer by layer, millennium after millennium. On either side, islands of cobalt blue and violet gather like shadows within rocky crevices, their fringed edges bearing witness to the free flow of paint across the surface. Between them, the white of the canvas breathes like light falling from above into the depths – still, cool, and infinitely vast.
Who is this Painting for?
'Procession (Canyon)' is a work of monumental beauty and quiet sublimity that transforms any space into an extraordinary experience.