En roue libre, 1 by Siméon Artamonov

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Siméon Artamonov

En roue libre, 1, 2025

Oil on Paper

50 x 40 cm

Inv: AAA250178

£600

This is a quiet, intimate painting built around concealment.

The painting is about refusal, introspection, distance. A moment caught mid-thought. There's tension between exposure and control: openness while insisting on privacy.

A pale hand presses over the face. The gesture feels protective, defensive, or exhausted. The face is withheld. Identity blocked. A sense of a person behind the hand. Access is denied.

The skin uses soft, layered tones: bruised pinks, warm creams, faint yellows. Veins and tendons show in the wrist. The hand is more resolved than the body, which fades into the background.

The background is a cool, slightly blurred. A psychological space rather than a literal one. It presses in without overwhelming. Hair and shoulders dissolve into loose brushwork.

The artwork title marks a period of reflection on technology as trap and painting as freedom.