Nico Pearleyes, Surreal Urban Landscape and Floating Trees, 2024, Acrylic on Paper, Framed

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This acrylic painting on 400 g/m² Fabriano “Pittura” paper belongs to a series of works created by Nico Pearleyes for … Read more This acrylic painting on 400 g/m² Fabriano “Pittura” paper belongs to a series of works created by Nico Pearleyes for Furtif magazine around the theme of “Lost Worlds.” In Cité Vide (“Empty City”), Pearleyes constructs a metaphysical landscape that oscillates between the real and the imagined, inviting reflection on the fragile boundary separating the two. The scene depicts a silent cityscape rendered in soft pastel tones and geometric planes. Futuristic architecture rises like abstract monuments, while sparse, flat-canopied trees stretch across the foreground as if reclaiming the terrain. The composition is punctuated by a hovering, elliptical shape in the sky—an ambiguous presence that could be a spacecraft, a cloud, or an idea suspended between thought and matter. Pearleyes approaches the notion of “lost worlds” as a paradox: a lost world may never have existed, yet it persists within collective imagination, influencing the tangible one we inhabit. Through this lens, imagination is not an escape from reality but one of its constitutive forces—an element that sustains our perception and gives meaning to existence. By stripping this landscape of human presence and narrative clues, Pearleyes renders it both alien and familiar, transforming emptiness into a site of contemplation. The artist’s distinctive visual language—merging Renaissance-inspired structure, Korean art motifs, skateboard culture, Post-Impressionist color sensibility, and Pop Surrealist tone—creates a unique space where organic forms and architectural volumes coexist. Cité Vide becomes an exploration of perception itself, a place where imagination and materiality blur into a shared territory. Dimensions: 25 x 35 cm unframed, 31.2 x 41.2 cm framed. Excellent condition. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
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