PORTRAIT / FIGURATIVE NOMINEE

In a moment that oscillates between staging and spontaneous incident, we meet the model as close as possible. There seems to be an intangible touch of privacy over the events, which tip over into an ambiguity of comfort and eroticism. In fact, soft knitted wool bridges polarizing bare, velvety shiny skin. A sprig of parsley, delicately, almost protectively completes a harmonious semicircle that with two halves of a pomegranate that emerge almost unnaturally from the shadow of the lower half of the picture to form an imaginary eight.In its eternal loop, it shows neither beginning nor end. The question of either or and as well as could be placed in the eternal cycle of this form. The essence of an endless debate about conjunction and disjunction is concentrated in this core formula, which is depicted in the oil painting with the two elements described. Symbolic of duality and an allusion to the keys of the Roman god Janus, who stood for beginning, end and unity, i.e. the Janus-faced quality that pervades this work.