Artwork 90 – The Embrace (E Version)

The Embrace E Version is the fifth pictorial work by Cesare Catania referring to the theme of the Embrace. This work is the preparatory one that will take the Embrace of Catania from a painting to a sculpture. The graceful and slender style of the two figures in the act of embracing is clear in this painting. Unlike the 2016 painting, where the two figures coexisted in a fluid and harmonious Embrace B Version, in this E Version the dynamism of the bodies predominates, almost as if they were twisted on themselves in an enveloping embrace. The same dynamism will then be found in the sculptural F Version.

The aforementioned vignetting of the image, already used in “The Violinist of Barcelona” (B Version), indicates the still image of a moving scene, almost as if the two bodies depicted were dancing and rotating in space.