Artist: Claudio Giulianelli
Title: The Sound of Silence
Type: Original artwork – unique piece
Medium and support: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60×60 cm – square format
Year: 2024
Description of the artwork
In The Sound of Silence, Claudio Giulianelli reaches one of the expressive peaks of his pictorial research. A female figure — with a serene face and a direct, slightly pensive gaze — plays a lute with the naturalness of someone who does not perform a melody but inhabits it. The midnight-blue dress, edged in gold, leaves the shoulders bare in a gesture of ancient elegance; the branched, pointed headpiece, also blue with green highlights, expands into space like an unfolding thought.
The background is dominated by broad yellow bands that cross the composition diagonally against a sky-blue field: ribbons of light, trajectories of sound, or perhaps the invisible threads of a cosmic theater. The chromatic contrast between the deep blue of the figure and the vibrant yellow of the background creates a powerful visual tension, evoking the Flemish pictorial tradition while simultaneously engaging with the abstract sensibility of the twentieth century.
The lute — the quintessential instrument of Renaissance and Baroque music — becomes in Giulianelli's hands a polysemic symbol: it is the voice of the soul, the medium between the visible and the invisible, between sound and the silence that contains it. The title is a fertile oxymoron: silence is not absence, but the condition in which sound acquires meaning.
Originality and authenticity
Original artwork already created, unique piece. The purchase concerns the artwork described in the listing, not a reproduction or a new creation made to order.
The artwork is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Micol Art Gallery and documentation from the artist.
Preparation and shipping
The artwork is shipped directly by Micol Art Gallery. After the order is confirmed, it is prepared for transport with professional protective packaging for original artworks. No production time is required: the original is already completed.
Copyright
Copyright and reproduction rights remain with the artist. The purchase of the physical artwork does not include the transfer of reproduction rights.
Color rendering
On-screen viewing may result in slight color differences compared to the physical artwork.
Micol Art Gallery – Arte4R Project
Claudio Giulianelli is part of the contemporary artist circuit of the Micol Art Gallery – Arte4R project, dedicated to promoting contemporary art and regenerating spaces through original artwork.
