Original artwork description:

"Io ti vedo (9)" by Assunta Cassa, part of the "Soul Mirrors" series, is a painting that immediately captures attention with its vibrant colors and fragmented, recomposed shapes.
The central subject is a human eye, with the iris depicted in shades of blue, green, and white. The detail of the eyelashes is highlighted with bold black strokes, adding depth and intensity to the gaze. The artwork is a riot of intense and contrasting colors, with red, orange, pink, purple, and blue combining in a mosaic of squares and rectangles. These colors convey vibrant energy and powerful emotional charge.

The palette knife technique used by the artist is evident in the textured oil paint, creating a sense of movement and vitality. The image of the eye is fragmented into pixels, a distinctive element of Assunta Cassa's style, reflecting the influence of digital art and symbolizing the complexity of perception and reality.

The eye represents the theme of perception, both internal and external, inviting the viewer to reflect on their own vision of the world and how they are seen by others. The chromatic contrasts accentuate the tension between different emotions, creating a dialogue between warm and cool, light and shadow.

The pixel fragmentation recalls digital aesthetics, reflecting the contemporary reality where digital and real intersect continuously, also suggesting the fragmentation of memory and perception. "Io ti vedo (9)" fits into Assunta Cassa's artistic journey, which has developed an original figurative language characterized by bold use of color and image fragmentation. Her art combines classical and digital influences, creating works that are both modern and imbued with humanity.

The artwork explores the complexity of human perception through an innovative use of color and technique, inviting one to look beyond the surface, to see and be seen in all their depth and complexity, as suggested by the title itself, "Io ti vedo."

Materials used:

oil colors and palette knives

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