Description
“Geisha” – Il Scimmia – 2025
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Artist: Il Scimmia
Material: Canvas stretched on wooden frame
Geisha is a painting that balances on the edge between tradition and the present. The figure is painted with clear references to the classical geisha – a role associated with ritual, structure, and an almost mythical femininity. Yet here she steps straight into our time, with a confident presence.
The contrast is charged: between the urban and the culturally rooted, between extroverted expression and introverted control. She wears a face that is both mask and identity, a gaze that is as distant as it is confronting. Who are we in the meeting between what we were and what we are becoming? Is it a revolt, or simply curiosity?
