Matter and Landscape collection
The Sea Tree
L'albero di mare (original Italian title)
In a blue sea crossed by green currents, a dark red tree spreads its branches: or perhaps it is a coral, a root, a heart.
- Artist
- Antonio Di Cristofaro
- Collection
- Matter and Landscape
- 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.
A large blue patch fills almost the entire white canvas, its edges jagged like a coastline seen from above. Inside, rings of acid green turn like sea currents, and golden veins draw a fine web of cracks. At the centre, rising from below, a dark red form branches out: a trunk, branches, a crown.
Tree or coral
It is a tree growing underwater, or a coral, or a root, or a system of veins: the image is deliberately left open. At the bottom, the red form seems to rest on small feet, as if it were stepping out of the canvas and walking. Other red branches surface at the edges of the blue patch, like seaweed or distant fires.
The material
As in Islands of Fire, the surface is crossed by a fine crackle through which the underlying colours emerge. The acid green, laid in concentric rings, creates a spiral movement that guides the eye towards the centre, where the red tree stands out.
The meaning
It is a painting about life that resists and grows even in the harshest environments. The tree that sinks its roots into water is an image of quiet strength, of adaptation, of belonging.
The poem · original Italian
L'albero di mare
Mi hanno detto: gli alberi crescono nella terra.
Ma io ho visto un albero piantato nel mare, con i rami rossi come vene e le foglie fatte di correnti.
Non aveva paura dell’acqua che si muove. Aveva imparato a tenersi stretto all’onda.
Vorrei essere così: radicato anche in quello che non sta mai fermo.
