Green apple

Original on canvas

60 x 60 cm

2024

The Deception of Form

A visual paradox: a silent duel between painting and tangible reality.

At first glance, we are captured by a green apple executed with impeccable technique, an academic painting pushed to the very limits of photorealism. Yet, at the heart of this two-dimensional perfection, the eye encounters a violent and poetic rupture: a hole in the painting.

Within this void emerges a second apple—a three-dimensional sculpture that serves as the material projection of the painted subject. Here, a “vortex of sensations” takes hold:

While the Third Dimension reclaims its space, challenging the canvas to become the real world, the Second Dimensiondeceives the eye, proving that color can appear more “real” than matter itself.

The observer is left lost in an infinite chase between what is painted and what can be touched. It is a dissolving boundary: the 3D apple leads back to the painted one, and vice versa, in a cycle that disorients the vision and confuses the sense of touch, making us doubt our own senses.

In art, as in life, the line between appearance and substance is often merely a matter of perspective.