The Suture (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Stefan Popescu

This time I didn't paint the stone — I built it. I raised the mineral paste with marble dust straight onto the surface, in real relief, until the shoulder gained the true weight of matter, not just its appearance. I caught the figure in profile, gaze lowered toward her own shoulder, the hand rising from behind to close over the collarbone — a gesture of self-soothing. Right beside the fingers, the gold suture begins: not on the chest, but on the back, running down from the base of the neck over the shoulder and shoulder blade, further toward the arm, like a second spine holding the body together from the outside. It isn't a vein crossing the flesh, but a stitch with real thickness, binding several pieces tightly together. Sutura opens a new series — Concretion — in which I no longer follow the body turning into stone, but the stone that has gathered, layer by layer, exactly around a wound, until it became, itself, a form of healing.

Materials used:

Acrylic on MDF, with bas-relief intervention in mineral paste and marble dust

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 70 x 100 x 1cm / 70 x 100cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits