This work is part of an ongoing cycle exploring ambivalent states of contemporary existence.
Title: Love
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2025
Format: Portrait format (18 × 24 inches)
Colour Space: Earth tones, green, red, and orange, with accents in black and copper
Stylistic Classification: Concrete painting / symbolic-geometric abstraction
„Love“ is structured into three levels and shows two partners whose relationship develops from bottom to top.
Love as romantic Development
In an affirmative reading, geometry, colour, and structure become carriers of an emotional narrative. From cautious approach, through tension and confrontation in the central zone, to mature connection, the forms are part of a shared system. At the top, a calm balance emerges: closeness now appears natural and sustained.
Love as Construction
From a critical perspective, the geometric order reveals that even in balance no true unity occurs. The forms touch and partially overlap, yet remain distinct. The work emphasises that a relationship always consists of two individual lives. Love here does not mean the surrender of the self, but the ongoing negotiation of closeness while preserving individual identity.
Conclusion
Love reveals relationship as a tension between emotion and structure, romantic longing and everyday reality. Its inner conflict lies not in choosing one over the other, but in their simultaneous coexistence.