A Sense of Balance
Il senso dell'equilibrio (original Italian title)
Dozens of lines of colour, each irregular and imperfect, that together find a calm, horizontal order: a painting about balance born from difference.
- Artist
- Antonio Di Cristofaro
- Collection
- Drips and Gesture
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Availability
- Available for purchase
Limited edition
Canvas prints
Faithful reproductions of the work on canvas, numbered and hand-signed by the artist, with certificate. The edition is closed: once sold out, it will never be reprinted.
The format follows the proportions of the original. Price and delivery times on request; worldwide shipping.
Lines, lines, lines. Red, blue, yellow and green, they cross the canvas from side to side, parallel but never identical: some thin as a thread, others swollen and thick; some break off, some split in two, others tremble. Between one line and the next, the white of the canvas breathes.
The balance of differences
None of these lines, taken alone, is balanced. Each one deviates, widens, breaks into a drop. And yet, all together, they compose an image of great stillness: a calm, horizontal order that rests the eye. This is the meaning of the title. Balance is not the perfection of each single part, but the way imperfections hold each other up.
The colours
Warm red, deep blue, bright yellow and green alternate without any one prevailing. It is a coexistence of different temperaments: warm colours push forward, cool ones recede, and the canvas finds its point of stability precisely in this constant balancing.
The technique
The lines are drips: fluid acrylic paint allowed to run across the canvas horizontally. The process requires a balance between control and surrender: the artist decides the direction, the colour and the quantity, but the material has the last word, forming drops, rivulets and small deviations that cannot be predicted.
Details
The work is signed bottom right. Its horizontal format emphasises the calm of the lines: a painting that visually widens a wall and brings serenity to a room — ideal above a sofa, a console table or a bed.
The poem · original Italian
Il senso dell'equilibrio
Nessuna riga è dritta, se la guardi da vicino: una trema, una si allarga, una si perde in una goccia.
Eppure, tutte insieme, fanno un orizzonte calmo, come le voci di una casa che la sera trovano il silenzio.
Ho imparato così il senso dell’equilibrio: non stare fermi, ma sostenersi a vicenda.
