La Solitudine del Faraone (Pharaoh’s Solitude) 1988 Stelman – English

Описание: 🇬🇧 Stelman | Pharaoh’s Solitude - (1988)
In this visionary composition, human forms and architectures merge into a suspended landscape, made of horizontal layers and rarefied distances. The central figure, alluding to the geometry of the pyramid, introduces an image of power and eternity that does not celebrate, but isolates. Presences appear fragmented and superimposed, as if they were at once bodies and relics, memory and matter. The muted colors—blues, violets, ochres—create a silent, mental atmosphere, more interior than geographical. The title directs the reading toward a ‘royal’ solitude: not emotional, but structural, belonging to one who is placed at the center and above, and therefore separated. The work invites slow contemplation, where time seems to settle and immobilize everything.
The work constructs an iconic device in which the theme of royalty—evoked by the pyramidal form and the monumentality of the masses—is overturned into an experience of distance and inaccessibility. The figuration is deliberately discontinuous: bodies, volumes, and profiles intersect through transparencies and grafts, generating a hybrid morphology between anatomy and architecture. The landscape, resolved through planes and chromatic stratifications, assumes temporal rather than spatial value: not a setting, but sediment, a deposit of duration. The attenuated palette, dominated by cold tones interrupted by ochre and pink, suspends all narrative pathos and produces a perceptual silence, almost liturgical.
The ‘solitude of the pharaoh’ is not a psychological feeling, but an ontological condition of power: to be the center means to be separation, immobility, distance. The result is a metaphysical vision in which the eternal coincides with the non-human, and monumentality becomes weight.


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Credits
We thank the Stelmanart association for their collaboration and support.
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