POESIA

Sébastien Cheramy's "POESIA" stakes its 145 × 125 cm surface on a dialogue between raw matter and pure poetry. The work takes its cue from the frescoed interior walls of Florentine palaces and from a line by the Renaissance poet Angelo Poliziano: "Sicché, fanciulle, mentre è più fiorita, cogliàn la bella rosa del giardino" — "Thus, young maidens, while it is still in bloom, let us gather the beautiful rose of the garden." Black and orange drips cut across bursts of blue and traces of pink, a mixed media surface built the way Cheramy builds all his canvases: layer by layer, scrape by scrape.

Here the marks carry a literary weight. They are not simply gestural — they read as a poet's words inscribed into the stone of time, fresco fragments worn away by the light of an endless summer. "POESIA" does not illustrate Poliziano's verse so much as enact its urgency, the same appeal to seize beauty before it fades, translated into pigment and erosion rather than language.

An original work from the eponymous series, "POESIA" is conceived for contemporary spaces where art meets architecture and emotion — a canvas built to hold its own against scale while rewarding the same slow, close looking that defines Cheramy's practice.