Description
“Urban Jungle” – Il Scimmia – 2025
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Artist: Il Scimmia
Material: Canvas stretched on wooden frame
Urban Jungle is a painting that captures the pulse of our time – a portrait that speaks as much about the individual as it does about the world we live in. The figure is dressed in urban tones, fragmented blocks of colour that both construct and dissolve the silhouette. You stand in the midst of a crowd, yet also in a vacuum – surrounded by the rhythm of the city, yet distanced from it. At your loneliest in the middle of the masses. Anonymous, yet still part of the whole.
Here anonymity and presence meet. The face is dissolved, almost erased, while the body is firmly rooted in the moment. Is this a person fading into the crowd, or someone stepping out from the noise of the city?
The contrast becomes an allegory of urban life: freedom and limitation, expression and consumption, identity and anonymity. The painting moves between the raw and the aesthetic, between the street and the gallery.
