Expectant Mother Code .AC008FE by Alessandro Cardamone
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 130 cm
Year: 2006
Price: $27900.00 USD
Status: available
A limited-edition and unique evolution, handcrafted by the artist Acrylic on stretcher frame. A hand-painted evolution of the work AC 008F, created in 2006 in Nuglar, Switzerland, and exhibited at the Hong Kong Art Museum, China, in 2023/2024. ‘China 2023’ limited edition of no more than four copies. Each piece is unique and bears its own identification mark. The artist makes slight adjustments to colour and form to give each work its own unique character.… Title: Donna in Attesa Code: AC008F Year: 2006, Switzerland Artist: Alessandro Cardamone Technique: Acrylic on canvas Style: Neo-Cubism / Contemporary Abstract Figuration ________________________________________ Formal Analysis Donna in attesa (ALECARD008F) marks a phase of full maturity in Alessandro Cardamone’s pictorial language. Compared to the earlier versions of the theme, the composition here becomes more essential and monumental, stripped of narrative elements and entirely focused on the relationship between form, light, and inner breath. The female figure, depicted in a moment of pregnancy, emerges from an interplay of curvilinear and vertical planes that seem to pulse with silent tension. The body is at once construction and vibration: geometry bends to the tenderness of form, while the cubist structure assumes an organic and vital rhythm. The color fields golden ochres, milky blues, pale greens, and earthy reds create an atmosphere of luminous stillness. The light is not external but emanates from within, as if rising from the figure’s womb itself. Shadows are minimal, almost absorbed by the color, and the surrounding space loses any realistic reference, becoming instead a mental space. The composition is sustained by an asymmetrical balance, where the curve of the body dominates the scene and every line leads the gaze toward the vital center: the maternal womb, a symbol of origin, waiting, and transformation. ________________________________________ Symbolism and Interpretation The work is an ode to femininity understood as a universal principle of creation. The woman is not merely a maternal figure but a cosmic metaphor for life preparing to manifest itself. Gestation becomes the image of the artistic process itself: painting, like motherhood, is an act of interiority of silent incubation and revelation. In this sense, Donna in attesa may be read as the artist’s self-reflection on the creative act. The fragmented yet cohesive body suggests the tension between matter and spirit, visible and invisible. The womb, as a source of light, also acts as an energetic center, representing the dimension of potentiality, of being in becoming. The figure’s collected posture and meditative gaze evoke contemplation and suspended time. Everything in the scene is silence, expectation, and inner vibration. ________________________________________ Influences In Donna in attesa (ALECARD008F), one can clearly discern the roots of Synthetic Cubism and the European modernist tradition, yet the formal lessons of Picasso and Gris are here transformed by a contemporary and spiritual sensibility. Echoes of Italian Metaphysical painting and Modigliani’s symbolic research can be perceived, alongside references to Léger and Matisse for their use of color as an autonomous and generative value. In a more modern key, the meditative tension of the work recalls the painting of Rothko or Scully, where color becomes a mental presence and a space for contemplation. Cardamone, however, remains profoundly autonomous: his cubist fragmentation is never intellectual but empathetic and spiritual. ________________________________________ Critical Evaluation Donna in attesa (ALECARD008F) represents one of the high points of Cardamone’s production during the early 2000s. Here, his formal research achieves full expressive maturity, where balance and feeling coexist within an essential yet profoundly meaningful visual register. Strengths: • Perfect synthesis between geometric structure and emotion. • Use of color as inner light, not as ornament. • Symbolic centrality of the female figure as a generative principle. • High poetic intensity, achieved through formal economy and spiritual signification. Distinctive elements compared to other works in the series: • A more focused and vertical composition that enhances the figure’s monumentality. • Reduction of space to pure luminous vibration. • A total equilibrium between construction and sentiment, marking the artist’s stylistic maturity. ________________________________________ Conclusion Donna in attesa (ALECARD008F) is one of Alessandro Cardamone’s most lyrical and spiritual works, in which the theme of maternity takes on a universal dimension. The female figure becomes an icon of becoming, a symbol of the creative energy that flows through matter, transforming it into life and light. With this canvas, Cardamone reaffirms his vision of Neo-Cubism as a language of the soul, where geometric form is not a limit but a means of revealing the mysterious. The work attests to the artist’s ability to unite formal modernity with spiritual depth, positioning him among the most significant contributors to contemporary abstract figuration. ________________________________________ Curatorial Note Donna in attesa (ALECARD008F) belongs to the cycle dedicated to the female figure as a symbol of creation and interiority. Created in 2006, it represents a phase of balance between formal investigation and spiritual reflection, serving as a prelude to Cardamone’s later chromatic explorations. Ideal for exhibitions focused on Contemporary Neo-Cubism, the symbolism of femininity, and painting as meditation, this work is part of an international collection and attests to the global dissemination of Cardamone’s poetic vision. (Critical text written for artistic documentation purposes — Basel, 2025)
Why collect this work?
A swollen central contour turns pregnancy into the painting’s organising geometry, while fractured facial planes prevent the figure from settling into a single viewpoint.
- Cardamone describes his practice as “Modern Neo-Cubism.” Here that designation helps identify how recognisable anatomy is reconstructed through intersecting curves, profiles and geometric compartments rather than naturalistic depth.
- In the photograph, the abdomen occupies the compositional centre. Its broad arc is echoed by three vessels, while the small head, enlarged hands and emphatic feet disrupt bodily proportion and shift attention from likeness to structure.
- The catalogue records acrylic on canvas, dated 2006. Acrylic can support sharply bounded, opaque colour areas; here the photographed surface shows pale fields held apart by dark outlines and narrow red and blue accents.
- The work is particularly useful for considering how a familiar maternal subject can be made spatial rather than sentimental: body, pottery, tiled floor and patterned wall are joined through repeated openings, curves and compartments.
About the Artist
Alessandro Cardamone
Alessandro Cardamone is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ottiglio, IT.
Nationality: Italian
The Artistic Identity and Technique Alessandro Cardamone’s artistic practice is rooted in a rigorous, independent visual philosophy that he defines...
