Rochi Lana "The Gemini Table" Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas, Two Horses at a Surreal Table, Contemporary Figurative Painting, 2026

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Two horses face off across a green tablecloth in matching harlequin party coats, checked in maroon and cream like they've … Read more Two horses face off across a green tablecloth in matching harlequin party coats, checked in maroon and cream like they've come dressed for the same costume ball. Between them the table is set with the kind of odd little cast you'd only find in a Rochi Lana painting: a sleepy gray cat sprawled mid nap, a wine glass with a face of its own, a lone banana, a wandering duck, olives sitting empty eyed on their plates. Nothing here takes itself too seriously, and that's exactly the charm, a still life with a wink in it.

Big, bright, and endlessly good company, this piece wants a dining room or a kitchen wall where people actually gather, somewhere it can keep making guests smile every time they notice one more small detail they missed the first ten times. This piece will be shipped unstretched and carefully rolled in protective tube for safer international transportation.

The artwork has an approximately 2 cm additional canvas margin. Flat mounting, framing behind glass or acrylic, or a professional canvas extension applied from the reverse is recommended if the artwork is intended to be stretched.

Rochi Lana is an Argentine illustrator and visual artist born in 1990 and based in Buenos Aires. In 2019 she began working under the artistic identity Banana Split, developing a practice that sits between the narrative and the symbolic, combining figurative elements, bold forms, and playful composition through mixed media, primarily acrylic and oil pastel on canvas.

Her work explores emotion and everyday scenes through an intimate, nostalgic lens, with subtle humor running through recurring objects, animals, patterns, and culinary imagery. Horses appear again and again across her canvases, often paired or grouped and dressed in bold checkerboard patterning, gathered around tables set with an eccentric mix of food, drink, and small domestic objects. In her own words, she is drawn to how ordinary scenes and objects can hold memory, tenderness, and transformation, with each piece beginning as a way of translating personal experience into a visual language that invites viewers to find their own stories in it.

She has participated in a group exhibition in Buenos Aires, and her work circulates through galleries, stores, and platforms both in Argentina and internationally, including licensing collaborations and fine art prints distributed through European and North American print studios. See less