FISSURA in Organic Design Showroom | STRATA Collection

The first encounter with FISSURA immerses the viewer in a plane dominated by a dense, almost opaque crimson surface that does not project outward, but instead retains a heavy vibration within its own thickness. This chromatic field is not passive; it is charged with a mineral magnetism, a latent, telluric warmth that seems to emanate from the layers of burgundy and brown accumulated beneath the visible surface. Faced with this mass of blind color, the gaze is forced to slow down, to adopt an attitude of visual listening, an almost physical stillness that allows one to capture the discrete perturbations running across the canvas. They are fine lines, horizontal incisions that traverse the material from side to side like sutures or geological faults in a slowly cooling relief, revealing the silent tension of a territory breathing in its own isolation.

By sinking the tool into the still-wet layers of paint, I am not seeking to trace an outline or define a figure; I seek to wound the material so that it speaks from its own depth. This gesture of incision is, in reality, an act of surrender, a conscious letting go of the rigorous geometry and technical control that usually constrain the plane. I let the groove advance with its own pulse, allowing the physical resistance of the oil and pigment to guide the tool's path and reveal the hidden strata lying beneath. In that friction, my breathing falls into step with the dense silence of the studio, and each line I open becomes an open wound where the paint stops obeying my intentions to begin existing under its own physical laws.

As the gaze travels across the composition, it pauses on the chromatic blocks that interrupt the hegemony of the crimson plane. The large quadrant on the left stands out, where a turquoise blue, almost wet and mineral, is framed and besieged by edges of an incandescent red. Here, a thermal paradox unfolds: the expansive, searing warmth of that burning frame collides directly with the static, contained coldness of the central blue. This conflict of intensities demands from the viewer an extreme sensory listening, an effort to perceive the almost imperceptible vibration occurring at the exact edge where both temperatures touch—a diffuse boundary that seems to oscillate between assimilation and resistance.

In suspending these blocks of color over the crimson void, I undertook the process as an exercise in absolute surrender to the conventions of traditional balance and perspective. I did not intend to structure the canvas through logical weights; I preferred that the small red fragment on the right and the lower block, partially submerged in a dense black, organically find their own gravity and temperature in the vastness of the painting. My task as a painter is not to solve the enigma of these presences or to justify their placement in space, but to allow the work to keep its thermal mystery intact, letting each color float stripped of an intellectual framework that attempts to explain its persistence.

In the resolution of FISSURA, the crack that gives the work its name is established as the core where the forces of the painting converge. It is in this material cleft that the warmth accumulated in the sediments of the paint manages to breathe outward, and where the viewer's listening becomes sharper when confronting the silent emptiness of the scar. The surrender of formal rigidity is fully consummated in this groove, transforming the surface of the canvas into an exposed, vulnerable skin, marked by the passage of geological and internal time. In the end, the work does not offer itself as a representation, but as a physical, latent presence projecting its contained vibration into the room, leaving the viewer to inhabit the persistent vibration of a wound that refuses to close.

Context references

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About this visualization

This visualization places the artwork within an architectural context to help collectors and viewers imagine its presence in a real space. It is an interpretive reference, not an exact reproduction: the original work remains the sole authority for scale, color, surface and material presence.