Rafa Silvares Flower, 2026
Oil on linen
120 x 100 cm
Rafa Silvares’s Flowers radiates a vibrant, virtually resurrective, yellow.
Executed in oil on linen, the painting depicts a close-up of a torchlight standing upright. Painted in theatrical hues of yellow and orange, a beam of light seizes the composition, pushing against the cold reflections of an otherwise metallic palette. Glowing like molten magma, the bulb suggests an energetic, essentially promising, core that resists the greyish undertones of an era defined by antiseptic containment.