Ecce Femina, 2023

Archival pigments on cotton paper mounted on aluminum, hand-finished wooden floater frame.
65 × 100 cm (25 ⅝ × 39 ⅜ in); 68 × 103 cm (26 ¾ × 40 ½ in) framed
Edition of 5

The artwork stems from a stratification of signs and compositional planes, elaborated by the artist through digital painting. It is realized on Hahnemühle Museum Etching paper and mounted on Dibond according to museum standards, ensuring high stability and conservation over time.

Signed and numbered on the reverse. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity on watermarked paper with unique holograms.

Ecce Femina, framed monochromatic contemporary artwork by Lorenzo Gramaccia

The night cleaves under an exact light. The abandonment of white flowers becomes the gravity of a reclining body.

A sculptural figure surfacing in the silent vertigo.

The artwork Ecce Femina: top view of a reclining female body, where the sculptural rendering dissolves into a powdery and evanescent trace The artwork Ecce Femina: top view of a reclining female body, where the sculptural rendering dissolves into a powdery and evanescent trace

Yet, this monumentality rests on dust.

The graphite fragments into a multitude of imperceptible marks. Slender traces that seek and overlap each other, until they become a choral breath.

  • Close-up detail of the texture in the artwork Ecce Femina: the multitude of meticulous marks and dots composing the anatomy
  • Macro detail of visual disintegration: the graphic dust and evanescent grain in Lorenzo Gramaccia's investigation
  • Study of microscopic chiaroscuro and the stratification of printed traces on cotton paper, Ecce Femina
  • Close-up shot of the textural contrasts between the drapery of the sheets and the abstraction of the contemporary body
  • Focus on the deep shadows and the plastic rendering of the fabric through the artist's digital painting

As in a secular deposition, Ecce Femina strips the iconography of martyrdom to turn it into rebirth.

Oppressed fragility transforms into a collective urgency. A necessary resistance.

Section of the artwork Ecce Femina: the visual tension between classical figurative drawing and the powdery disintegration of form Section of the artwork Ecce Femina: the visual tension between classical figurative drawing and the powdery disintegration of form