Emotional Landscape

About the work

A Landscape Drawn from a Real Place

Emotional Landscape began with a photograph I took in Lithuania. In the painting, the real location becomes a suspended landscape, immersed in an almost unreal silence.
The house, the trees and the body of water belong to a seemingly familiar setting. Yet certain elements alter our perception of the scene, raising the possibility that the place we are looking at may exist somewhere else.

The Sky and the Multiverse

The sky is crossed by the surfaces of a large polygon, a recurring element in some of my other works. Its geometry disrupts the continuity of space and suggests the presence of parallel dimensions.
This could be our world, or one of many possible universes: similar to the reality we know, but governed by different laws.

An Incomplete Reflection

Nature is reflected and multiplied in the water. The trees continue across the surface of the lake, forming a second, inverted landscape.
The house, however, casts no reflection. Its absence introduces a quiet anomaly: does the building truly belong to this place, or is it only an apparition?

An Invitation to Slow Down

The stillness of Emotional Landscape invites the viewer to pause and give the image more time.
It is a landscape to be entered slowly, allowing oneself to be drawn into a place where reality and possibility coexist without offering a final answer.

Technique

The acrylic airbrush on canvas is the preferred technique of Giampiero Abate, enabling him to achieve almost hyper-realistic details in subjects that, by nature, are not realistic. Humanoids with physically statuesque features reminiscent of ancient Greece or Rome, but placed in metaphysical settings and often with iris-less eyes; this particular element creates an interpretative ambiguity, leaving the observer unable to categorize the work as realism or fantasy. Always on the edge of the Ultrareal, it is designed with 3D software like DAZ3D, rendered, and transferred onto canvas to be painted and completed.