Our Artistic Language

Painting as Architecture, Memory and Cross-Cultural Geometry

PELLESCURA 1454 treats painting as a form of architecture.

Rather than starting from image or decoration, each work begins with an inner structure – a skeleton of grids, axes and invisible lines of tension. Onto this structure we layer color fields, fragments and symbols, until the surface becomes a quiet but complex “mental space” where geometry, identity and memory coexist.

Our language is slow, hand-crafted and cross-cultural: calm at first glance, but full of depth when you stay.

Painting as a Built Space

For PELLESCURA, a painting is not a flat image – it is a constructed place.

We think in plans, sections and elevations, much like architects.

Lines define invisible walls; blocks of color act as rooms; empty areas become air and silence.

Each composition is carefully balanced between:

  • Structure – grids, axes, divisions and overlaps
  • Rhythm – repetition, pause, density and emptiness
  • Orientation – how the viewer’s eye moves through the work

The result is a canvas that behaves like a space: you don’t just look at it, you enter it.

Structure. Geometry. Memory.

Three elements are at the core of the PELLESCURA language:

  1. Structure
    Every work is built on an invisible scaffold.
    This underlying order holds together all fragments, colors and symbols, giving the work a quiet clarity even when the surface is complex.
  2. Geometry
    Curves, circles, segments and blocks create a vocabulary that is both abstract and deeply human.
    Geometry is not used as a cold system, but as a way to speak about bodies, cities, emotions and relationships.
  3. Memory
    Small signs, cuts, layers and erasures carry traces of time.
    Fragments of faces, architectural details, textiles, icons and landscapes appear and disappear, like memories surfacing from the subconscious.

These three elements intertwine to form what we call a “spiritual structure” – a visual architecture for inner life.

Portraits Without Faces – Mental Maps of Identity

Many PELLESCURA works sit between abstraction and portraiture.

Sometimes you see a face; sometimes only fragments – an eye, a curve of a mouth, a silhouette of a body dissolving into grids and color fields. Identity is never a simple image. It is built like a city: layer upon layer, with hidden streets and secret rooms.

In this sense, each painting can be read as:

  • a map of inner states
  • a diagram of relationships
  • a compressed biography made of shapes, not sentences

The work does not describe a person; it constructs one.

Cross-Cultural Roots

PELLESCURA 1454 was born between cultures:

Eastern introspection, Mediterranean craft, Chinese and Italian material traditions, and a background in architecture and interiors all flow into the work.

This cross-cultural position shapes our language in several ways:

  • Eastern inwardness – calm surfaces, restraint, attention to inner rhythm
  • Mediterranean craftsmanship – tactile materials, warm imperfection, respect for handwork
  • Architectural thinking – spatial logic, structural clarity, long-term durability
  • Chinese & Italian material experience – understanding of stone, wood, fabric, paper, pigments and how they age over time

Because of this, the paintings can live comfortably in very different contexts – from European galleries to Asian apartments, from contemporary museums to historic interiors – while still remaining true to themselves

A Slow, Hand-Crafted Aesthetic

In an image culture of speed and instant effects, PELLESCURA insists on a slower rhythm.

Layers of paint are applied, sanded, glazed and rebuilt. Lines are drawn, erased and redrawn. Colors are mixed by hand, not copied from a screen. Tiny variations in texture, thickness and sheen are allowed to remain.

This slowness creates:

  • Depth – visually and emotionally
  • Density – the feeling that the work can be revisited many times
  • Patina – a sense that time is already present in the surface

We often say: these works are not “produced”, they are built.

From Studio to Space

PELLESCURA’s artistic language does not stop at the edge of the canvas.

Because the founders also work in architecture and interior design, the same principles of structure, geometry and memory extend naturally into space:

  • paintings that align with walls, doors and sightlines
  • color fields that answer to stone, wood, textile and light
  • artworks conceived as part of a wider spatial narrative, not as isolated objects

Stepping into a PELLESCURA painting should feel like stepping into a carefully curated exhibition – the work is never alone, but lives with the wall, the light and the materials around it.

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Why This Language Matters

For collectors, galleries and institutions, this coherent language is what gives PELLESCURA its identity card.

  • It is recognizable – you can see a PELLESCURA work across a room.
  • It is flexible – it can speak to private living rooms, boutique hotels, cultural spaces and museums.
  • It is rooted – in years of practice, cross-cultural experience and a clear method, rather than in passing trends.

Above all, it offers something rare today: an abstract language that is both intellectually rigorous and emotionally accessible.

Explore the Work

If this language resonates with you, we invite you to explore how it appears in different bodies of work:

  • large-scale acrylic paintings – architectural canvases for living spaces
  • smaller series on paper – intimate studies of mood, memory and geometry
  • integrated art & interior projects – where paintings and space are conceived together
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