Oil on board | 45×50cm | 2024
Original oil painting by Santi Pina
Melted presents a female torso and hips, rendered with visceral intimacy. The figure fills the entire canvas, leaving no room to look away. There are no arms, no head; only flesh, gravity, and the powerful presence of absence. The composition is monumental in its simplicity, yet what truly disturbs is the rupture: beneath the sternum, the surface of the painting is physically broken, a brutal gesture carved into the support itself.
The title suggests softness, but what unfolds is tension. The body appears to sink, to collapse inward, not from pain but from something deeper: fatigue, surrender, emotional erosion. The violence of the broken surface contrasts with the tenderness of the form, creating a dialogue between destruction and beauty, between body and void.
Melted is not about suffering. It is about the quiet aftermath of impact, the way something can remain whole in appearance, but irreversibly altered underneath.
Details:
Title: Melted
Medium: Oil on board
Style: Figurative, contemporary realism
Year: 2024
Dimensions: 45×50 cm
Signed by the artist
Includes certificate of authenticity
Worldwide shipping available
Oil on board | 45×50cm | 2024
Original oil painting by Santi Pina
Melted presents a female torso and hips, rendered with visceral intimacy. The figure fills the entire canvas, leaving no room to look away. There are no arms, no head; only flesh, gravity, and the powerful presence of absence. The composition is monumental in its simplicity, yet what truly disturbs is the rupture: beneath the sternum, the surface of the painting is physically broken, a brutal gesture carved into the support itself.
The title suggests softness, but what unfolds is tension. The body appears to sink, to collapse inward, not from pain but from something deeper: fatigue, surrender, emotional erosion. The violence of the broken surface contrasts with the tenderness of the form, creating a dialogue between destruction and beauty, between body and void.
Melted is not about suffering. It is about the quiet aftermath of impact, the way something can remain whole in appearance, but irreversibly altered underneath.
Details:
Title: Melted
Medium: Oil on board
Style: Figurative, contemporary realism
Year: 2024
Dimensions: 45×50 cm
Signed by the artist
Includes certificate of authenticity
Worldwide shipping available
