RF Alvarez - Altar to a Love Affair, 2025

The ground is absolute black. Everything that exists in this painting exists because Alvarez has pulled it forward from darkness, and everything that exists is already in the process of returning to it. A ceramic vase — glazed in pale grey and cream, its surface decorated with the faint relief of a classical figure, a nude turning away — holds a bouquet of peonies in two states: some still vivid and fuchsia-pink, full-petalled, imperative; others already spent, their petals browning

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