In this compact yet luminous composition from the "Riflessi" series, Ruggero Gamberini fractures colour and gesture into a poised square of shifting planes. Sweeping strokes of teal, slate, ivory and muted gold collide and overlap, their directional energy held in tension by the strict geometry of the format. The collage structure introduces subtle interruptions - edges, seams, tonal breaks - that read like light caught on a moving surface.
Rather than depicting reflection, the work performs it: brushstrokes glance off one another, darker passages absorb the eye, while paler fields release it again. The result is a surface that feels both constructed and fluid, disciplined yet impulsive - as if abstraction itself were pausing to consider its own echo.
- Subject Matter: Riflessi series, 2003, Abstract collage, Oil on paper, Geometric abstraction