STREETLIGHTS (MANHATTAN)

Title: STREETLIGHTS (MANHATTAN)
Year: 2022
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 100 x 100 cm, 40 x 40 in
Location: Atlanta, USA
Provenance: Artist’s Studio, Switzerland
Authentication: This artwork is accompanied by a certificate from the artist, signature on the back

In this composition, Manhattan becomes less a fixed cityscape than a field of acceleration, where architecture, light, and velocity collide. A red car cuts through the fog-grey mass of concrete and glass like a brief rupture in the urban continuum, while the green intersection light suspends the scene between permission and urgency. The painting transforms an ordinary urban instant into a meditation on speed, anonymity, and contemporary perception: what remains of the city when everything is already moving past us? Streetlights, reflections, and the barely legible vehicle dissolve into an atmosphere of restless becoming, revealing the metropolis not as a place to be seen, but as a force to be felt.