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This abstract painting features a bold color palette and geometric shapes that create a dynamic and surreal composition. The prominent use of vibrant red, black, and green hues, along with the sharp, angular forms, convey a sense of tension and intentional distortion. The artwork appears to depict an ambiguous, almost architectural structure, with hints of organic elements like a curved yellow shape that suggest a sense of balance and duality. The distinct modernist style and unconventional approach to representation suggests the artist aimed to explore themes of abstraction, form, and the relationship between the natural and constructed worlds. ...
Drawing on a self-invented visual language shaped by synesthesia—the perception of letters and numbers as colors—Matea Perrotta investigates themes of desire, duality, and the subconscious. Trained in classical painting and drawing, she transforms figurative subjects, often the female form, into biomorphic abstractions where curves, voids, and compressed spaces evoke vulnerability and strength. Her compositions balance masculine and feminine energies, using texture, color, and line to suggest a sensorial, bodily presence without direct representation. Perrotta’s work is informed by her immersion in diverse cultural contexts. In Morocco, she developed natural pigments from earth and minerals, translating her painted forms into hand‑woven, hand‑dyed textiles created in collaboration with local women. These functional rugs extend her paintings into tactile, everyday objects, challenging hierarchies between fine art and craft. Across the media, she treats abstraction as a coded language—part intimate confession, part universal symbol—through which emotion and memory are embedded in color relationships and material surfaces. Her paintings and textiles invite slow, physical engagement, prompting viewers to navigate a space between recognition and ambiguity, where form resists fixation and meaning is felt as much as it is seen. ...