DIFFERENCE - East means west

Name: DIFFERENCE - East means west
Brand: Giada Rotundo
Price: 700.0 USD
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Artist: Giada Rotundo
Certification of Authenticity: Apricus Art Collection
Signature: Signed by Artist

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40" x 60"

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Description

This painting by Giada celebrates the intimate and universal power of love between cultures. Depicted in a refined black-and-white palette, the work portrays a Western woman and an Eastern man in a moment of closeness and emotional connection. The composition, rendered in a realistic oil technique, plays with perception and duality—inviting the viewer to reflect on identity, unity, and the beauty of difference.

Through subtle shading and careful detail, the figures merge into a single harmonious image, symbolizing the blending of traditions, perspectives, and emotional worlds. The choice of monochrome enhances the timelessness of the theme, stripping away distractions to focus on the essence of human connection.

This piece is a visual homage to intercultural love—a quiet yet powerful statement against division, and a poetic affirmation of empathy, curiosity, and shared humanity.

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Artist Biography

Giada is an Italian painter based in Lombardy, whose work explores the complexity of female identity through realism, symbolism, and emotional depth. She graduated with honors from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano and has been working as a professional artist for over ten years. Her practice is rooted in oil painting on canvas, with a focus on the female figure, often portrayed in suspended moments of intimacy, resistance, and reflection.

Her compositions are cinematic and psychologically charged, combining traditional techniques with contemporary themes such as gender-based violence, ecological symbolism, and mythological resonance. Nudity, when present, is treated as a language of vulnerability and memory, never as mere display. Giada’s work has been described as visually striking and socially engaged, blending cold light, rarefied spaces, and surreal elements to evoke both personal and collective narratives.

Over the years, she has exhibited extensively across Europe and internationally, with solo and group shows in Italy, the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Chile, and the United States. Her most recent exhibitions include:

Eterea – Tra Natura e Mito, Artroom, Genova (2025)
Dolci Assenze, Galleria Triphé, Rome (2024)
City of Stars, Iperspazio, Milan (2024)
Je sais que je suis, Galerie Grand Verre, Paris (2023)
L’essenziale è invisibile, The Copeland Gallery, London (2022)
Echoes of Antiquity, Palazzo Beneventano Museum, Lentini (2021)
Profusion, Norbertellen Gallery, Los Angeles (2020)
Body Language, Galleria Tirabasso, Milan (2019)
Differences, Spazio Serra, Milan (2018)

Her painting Night and Day was acquired into the Ceravento Collection in 2023. Giada has also participated in major art fairs and public art projects, including The Others Art Fair (Turin), Every Woman Biennial (London and Turin), and Visioni Altre Gallery (Venice).

Looking forward, Giada continues to expand her visual language through interdisciplinary collaborations and international residencies, with the aim of creating works that are both aesthetically compelling and socially transformative.

Artist Statement

Giada’s pictorial research stems from a visual and narrative urgency: to give body and voice to the female figure in all its nuances, fragilities, and powers. Graduated with honors from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano, she has been working as a painter for over ten years, devoting herself exclusively to oil on canvas with a realistic approach that occasionally touches on symbolism and the surreal.

Her paintings stage women suspended between intimacy and resistance, between silence and gaze. Some works explicitly address the theme of gender-based violence prevention—not through rhetoric, but by constructing tense atmospheres, ambiguous relationships, and interrupted gestures. The nude body, when present, is never exhibitionist: it is language, vulnerability, memory.

In her work, light is often cold and sharp, like frames from an inner film. The compositions unfold in rarefied spaces, where the male figure appears distant—sometimes a spectator, sometimes a shadow. Women, by contrast, are the absolute protagonists: seated, standing, reflected, immersed in silent dialogues with space or with other presences. Faces brush against each other, seek each other, mirror each other. Their gazes do not ask—they affirm.

Some recent canvases incorporate symbolic and dreamlike elements: floating coins, landscapes reflected in sunglasses, impossible garments. These details are not decorative, but fragments of a language that blends myth, future, and memory. Each painting is an attempt to portray woman as an active, complex subject—never reducible to stereotype.

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