Femme au Cafe du Louvre Code :AC0020HE02 by Alessandro Cardamone
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 92 x 128 cm
Year: 2010
Price: $25900.00 USD
Status: available
Limited-edition and unique piece, hand-executed by the artist Scale 1:1, acrylic on stretched canvas. Handcrafted evolution of the work AC 0030H, created in 2010 in Nuglar, Switzerland, and exhibited in 2023/2024 at the Hong Art Museum in China. Limited Edition “China 2023,” No. 2 of 3 pieces. Each piece is different and unique and has its own code. The artist will make some changes to the color and form to give the work a sense of uniqueness. On the back of the work: handwritten signature, description, and fingerprints on all four corners. Artist’s work with a certificate of authenticity. Catalogue Sheet Title: Femme au Café du Louvre Code: AC0020H Year: 2010 – Switzerland Artist: Alessandro Cardamone Technique: Acrylic on canvas Measurements:128X92 cm Price: 84K Euro Style: Neo-Cubism / Contemporary Abstract Figuration ________________________________________ Formal Analysis The artwork unfolds as a powerful neo-cubist expression, based on the fragmentation of figures into overlapping planes and a multidimensional perspective. The human figures, though still recognizable, are broken apart and interact within a visual grid that challenges traditional perspective, offering a simultaneity of viewpoints. At the center, a female face emerges: the composition reflects balance and dialogue. Rigid geometric forms arise from rounded contours, while vibrant patches of yellow, red, blue, and turquoise break the austerity, creating warm/cool chromatic contrasts and a pulsating visual rhythm. ________________________________________ Symbolism and Interpretation The figures appear to be immersed in a silent moment of introspection or confrontation—a reflection on otherness, on the concept of the double, and on the relationship between self and other. Amplified, abstract eyes suggest an intense, expanded perception. The colored hands—one red, one blue—embody the polarities of human touch: emotional warmth versus cold distance. On a symbolic level, the aqua-green vases and floating shapes in the background form a suspended stage: metaphysical elements or theatrical props that add psychological depth, enhancing the scene’s sense of ritual and emotional suspension. ________________________________________ Influences The visual language evokes influences from Picasso and Braque’s analytic cubism, reinterpreted through a contemporary chromatic sensitivity: intense colors, soft lines, and a touch of graphic irony. The influence of digital art and modern illustration is apparent in the formal clarity and aesthetic detachment from material painterliness, while still remaining rooted in traditional painting. ________________________________________ Critical Evaluation Strengths: • Compositional Power: The balance between geometric fragmentation and chromatic harmony is effective and well-calibrated. • Emotional Accessibility: Despite its fragmented structure, the piece communicates sensations with immediacy. • Original Concept: The theme of duality and relationship is conveyed through a personal and contemporary visual language. Limitations:. • The symbolic presence, although intense, may seem vague to viewers who seek more explicit narratives or contextual anchoring. ________________________________________ Conclusion AC0020H is an intense and contemplative work: Cardamone confirms his mastery in renewing Cubism with emotional tones and elegant forms. The painting offers a silent dialogue between eras and states of mind, blending the classical geometry of fragmentation with the poetics of human connection. It is a work that embraces both tradition and contemporaneity, inviting the viewer into an experience of inner contemplation and reflection. ________________________________________ Exhibition Note This work, exhibited in numerous European countries, is part of the collection hosted by the Hong Art Museum in Chongqing, China, from November 2023 to March 2024. Critical text written for artistic documentation purposes – Basel 2025
Why collect this work?
A face assembled from sharp, overlapping planes anchors a crowded field of rounded forms, turning the café subject into a study of how a person can remain legible while pictorial space breaks apart.
- Cardamone describes his practice as “Modern Neo-Cubism,” with the female figure as a recurrent subject. Here, that framework clarifies the contrast between recognisable features and deliberate geometric dislocation.
- In the photograph, one frontal eye sits inside a profile-like head, while red lips, black wedges and finger-like white bars point in competing directions. Repeated arcs behind the figure compress foreground and background into a dense, stage-like arrangement.
- Catalogued as acrylic on canvas from 2010, the medium supports opaque pinks, reds and creams bounded by pale outlines. These divisions preserve each shape as a distinct unit even where bodies, furnishings and surrounding forms become difficult to separate.
- The painting is particularly relevant to collections examining contemporary revisions of Cubist structure: it retains fractured viewpoints but uses saturated colour and café imagery to test the boundary between portraiture and abstraction.
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...
