Snowflake with fish (2022) Original Oil Painting by Federico Cortese

An original piece from the series “Snowflakes”:

Someone teaches us that the snowflakes are different from each other since we are small children. We learn that they are formed with a crystallization process that follows a geometric pattern that changes each time, indefinitely, never having the possibility of a repetition. The ice crystal takes shape slowly, expanding from a central point to the surrounding space, obeying to some strict symmetrical scheme, until all unallocated space is filled with these icy branches. What happens if in this process, the atoms of the water, in the meanwhile they are solidifying, encounter an obstacle, a slag, an impurity? Will it also remain trapped inside the grid? Will it be absorbed by this geometric cage, or would it be able to break the symmetry, imposing its diversity?

Materials used:

oil on thick paper

Details:

• Oil painting on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 35 x 35 x 0.1cm (unframed)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Graphic
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative