Pasquale Proia - fotografia & digital art

A veiled sculpture emerges from a corroded metal landscape: rust and silence envelop the figure, suspended between desire and fear. The body looks like the skin of the soul, engraved by iron and the veil; a silent cry that vibrates in matter and holds the moment in the balance between affirmation and surrender.

An image suspended between light and matter, where memory shatters into golden reflections and fractured surfaces. Each fragment holds time still, as if the moment refused to move.
The black grid doesn’t confine but deepens the stillness, turning the window into a symbolic threshold toward frozen memory. A vision about the fragility of presence and the longing to remain in a single, fragile beat of time.

A face behind a marked surface, like a restrained presence, evokes a sense of mystery and introspection. The image presents itself as an enigma, an invitation to reflect on the nature of joy and inner imprisonment.
The artwork is inspired by the famous song "Quale allegria" by Lucio Dalla, transforming an intimate song into a visual language. (Thanks to Flavia Proia for her contribution to this artwork)

A frosty winter morning, where ice has formed on a transparent surface, trapping bare trees in a play of reflections and shadows.
The icy texture, with its shades of white, gray, and brown, creates a striking contrast with the deep black of the tree trunks, while the soft yellow of the ground adds a hint of warmth to this chilly scene.

A face emerges from the light between waves and silence, a thin boundary between presence and fade. An image of absence, memory, and listening. Suspended between marine vibrations and glimmers, the body becomes transparency, an inner portrait more than a figure. It's a deep, fragile listening that slips into the white and blends with the breath of the waves.

Pablo Picasso, Mimmo Paladino and Emilio Isgrò in Rome, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art: a dialogue between art and reflection, between reality and representation, which explores the relationship between artwork and viewer, generating visual overlaps and deep reflections.
The transparencies of museum glass generate visual overlaps between figures and reflections, in a continuous dialogue between reality and representation, between observer and observed.
The image invites us to question the deep meaning of "looking", challenging the perception of art itself.

An impossible encounter between eras and identities. Mateo Maté’s Black Venus, a reinterpretation of Canova’s Venus Italica, gathers in an intimate gesture atop a monumental staircase. Opposite her, a digital figure floats like an artificial apparition. At the top, tiny onlookers unknowingly witness a silent dialogue between classicism and the present.

A play of light and shadow, forms and colours meet in silent harmony, creating poetic language through geometry.* Abstract art finds a unique expression here, evoking emotions and reflections through essential composition and line purity.

Dry branches stretch like ink lines over a white page, evoking the delicate traces left on a snowy path, with an atmosphere of silence and abstraction.
The image is shaped through subtraction: the blinding white sky becomes a mental space, while the dark branching lines suggest invisible directions, inner journeys, and states of suspension.

A solitary musical note, a leaf placed on the staff of the pentagram drawn by the shadow. A "warm and vital red" that Kandinskij called "like the sound of a tuba", but this is what they say, another story.

A digital artwork blending urban textures and vivid colors in an abstract composition. The title, distorted in shape, evokes a sense of motion and space travel, turning the surface into a surreal dimension between reality and imagination.

Explore Götterdämmerung, a visual artwork inspired by Richard Wagner's music drama. A dark image featuring hooded figures and a brick tower, set in blue and black tones, evoking mystery, decay, and tension. Ideal for fans of symbolic art and classical music.

The Echo of the Mind captures a suspended moment between body and thought, where the shadow of a bowed head stands sharp against a rough wall, while a hand, relaxed in silence, gently falls beyond the edge of the real. The image evokes an intimate threshold, a space of inner reflection where physical presence dissolves into mental impression. It invites the viewer to perceive absence as trace, and light as a medium between what is and what lingers.

An abstract digital artwork depicting a stylized bull through fluid colors and intense shades on a black background. The image evokes movement and dynamism, transforming the traditional symbolism of bullfighting into a modern and expressive vision.

Freely inspired by David Lynch’s movie. The image evokes a fusion between the human and a primordial element, with fire becoming an extension of the soul. The contrast between the burning flames and the surrounding darkness amplifies the sense of mystery and inner power.

Freely inspired by David Lynch’s movie of the same name. The image features distorted shapes and intense colors, evoking a fusion between human and surreal, conveying emotion and introspection through fluid textures and contrasting shades.

This photo evokes a mental and visual labyrinth where geometric lines, illuminated by warm tones and deep shadows, create an enigmatic path that is lost in the darkness. The image evokes the idea of inner journey, search and confusion, as a symbol of the labyrinth of the human psyche.

The tension between matter and light crystallizes into a fragile balance, a vibrant stillness that holds the gaze and speaks in a silent voice.
Layers of metal, wood and color interlace in a composition ruled by red, yellow and black. It invites stillness, listening to absence and sensing hidden harmony in surfaces.

A shadow moves on a luminous surface, as if it were crossing a process of slow and secret transformation. The image suggests the sensation of being trapped in an invisible web, inspired by "Never Open" by Claudio Lolli.
The fiery red tones evoke pain and change, a deep and necessary inner journey, creating a direct connection between the intimacy of the body and the abstract space of memory.

A visual art composition that fuses mechanical design elements with organic textures, creating a surreal and hyperreal atmosphere. The layered composition features polka dot patterns, red forms, and cryptic numbers, evoking themes of control, experimentation, and altered perception of time.
The composition defies logic and activates intuition, in an innovative and suggestive artistic context that explores the boundaries between reality and imagination.

A suspended gesture, a shadow that stretches in the urban sunset, tension and mystery, in a rarefied light where the heat seems to almost block the city noises, while the dark forms merge with the vegetation.
The shadow becomes protagonist, charged with emotional resonance, the human presence is almost lost in this metaphorical enigma.

An evocative work that explores human fragility through the abstraction of forms and textures, suggesting an archetypal return to the earth and memory, where light sculpts space with symbolic force.
The silhouette of a human figure merges with the earth, losing identity but gaining universality. Light becomes a force that evokes the idea of rebirth and vulnerability, and the work becomes a visual reflection on primordial innocence.

A visual homage to Aleksandr Rodchenko, icon of the Russian avant-garde, this composition merges object and portrait in a dynamic play of forms and reflections, evoking constructivist aesthetics, Russian constructivism, and artistic avant-garde, transforming everyday life into formal and experimental narrative.
The shiny, imposing scissors seem suspended above a printed face, suggesting a dialogue between cut and memory, matter and concept. The sharp angle and marked contrast evoke constructivist aesthetics, transforming everyday life into formal narrative. The work invites reflection on the boundary between image and identity, shadow and meaning.

A bluish light emerges from an opaque and cracked surface, like an interrupted passage between two worlds. The composition, simple yet intense, evokes silence, solitude, and fracture, transforming a surface into a symbolic boundary. This work speaks of isolation, memory, and absence.

Summer, melancholy, light, silence, and memory condensed into a subtle figure that hovers on the border between visible and absent. Stretched towards an immobile horizon, as if drawn to something it cannot reach, the presence seems to evaporate in the light. The beach becomes a mental place, a fragile threshold between waiting and disappearance. Inspired by “On the Beach” by Neil Young.

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