This contemporary artwork features a striking composition of organic, abstract shapes in a muted color palette. The central form, resembling a towering monolith, rises from a hazy background of earthy tones and soft brushstrokes. The artist's skilled use of texture and layering creates a sense of depth and mystery, inviting the viewer to contemplate the piece's symbolic or narrative elements. The overall style suggests a contemplative, almost mystical quality, hinting at the artist's intention to evoke a sense of the sublime or the spiritual within the natural world. ...
Elisa Bertaglia (1983, Rovigo, Italy) is an Italian visual artist based in Brooklyn, who in her artistic research, freely pursues layers of experimentation by using changing mediums and techniques. Despite starting her career primarily as a painter, in recent years Bertaglia’s practice has become more eclectic and experimental, leading her to create wall drawings, sculptures, ceramics, installations, large or small scale paintings, and site-specific projects. Through a philosophical and conceptual approach, the artist investigates symbols in contemporary society and its short circuit which in recent years brought forth an identity and communication crisis. In particular, she analyzes the symbol as a semantic threshold in which a signifier and a meaning merge to communicate a universal message. Her research is strongly influenced by oriental philosophical doctrines, which develops a peculiar vision of time and space in her work. As demonstrated from the titles of her work, Bertaglia’s work is open to different spheres of influence. Among these, literature and cinema have always played a central role. ...
