
Sébastien Cheramy's "WABI SABI 23092023" (2023) is a mixed media canvas that captures the tension between order and dissolution. Rendered in a charged palette of neon pink, acid yellow, and deep charcoal, the composition surges from raw darkness toward open light. Gestural marks sweep across a softly veiled ground of greys and pale blues, while fluid calligraphic lines anchor the centre, holding the work's volatile energy in check.
The title invokes the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi — beauty found in impermanence and imperfection. Cheramy does not illustrate the concept. He embodies it: every mark is both deliberate and surrendered, a testament to his mastery of controlled accident. The work belongs to his ongoing Wabi Sabi series, where gestural expressionism meets calligraphic precision in a sustained inquiry into movement and transience.
This piece represents Cheramy at his most visceral and precise. For collectors of bold contemporary abstraction, "WABI SABI 23092023" is a statement work — large in scale, immediate in impact, and conceptually anchored. It is a work that rewards sustained attention, revealing new tensions with each viewing.