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half animal-half human figurings are grasping for existence in a circle. color blue-cold and orange-warmth are in protest.

Whisper of World 3

The circle is not a compositional choice so much as an ethic: once you enter a genuine transformation, there is no “outside” to retreat to.…

surrealist painting on an intriguing yellow background, dramatic scenario. transformation woman-snake and a black bird as a symbol of something bad. but, also, hope...

Awakening of the worlds

The central stack is a precarious cosmology, not planets floating freely, but prophecies arranged into an order that can collapse at any moment, because every…

mystic painting of surrealistm, figures mixed between humans and animals, mushrooms growing

Whisper of Worlds 6

This painting treats time as a form of metabolism rather than chronology, which is why it doesn’t pass; it transmits. I placed the hourglass like…

Disegno idee, lo spazio e il tempo senza storia, lontano dai bisogni della nostra civiltà, come un fantasma che cerca qualcosa oltre la realtà, non rimpiangendo altro che l'immortalità. Un piacere già vissuto mi impone un certo tipo di strumenti e mi porta ad inseguire mete mai raggiunte mentre la Coscienza avanza (ricordandomi il futuro) alle macchine dell'Amore... come Ulisse a un'altra Itaca.

malinconico sguardo di cyborg

Al genio D’alì

70 × 50 – Acrylic on canvas – 2022A tribute to Salvador Dalí.

L’Abbraccio

The Embrace – 80 × 60 – year 2024 Acrylic on canvas – mixed media technique. It represents the embrace: between parents and children, siblings,…

Noctidiurnal Planet

Ivan Cagnani 2025

Wide horizontal scene where tall mushrooms and floating spheres build a left to right current; two reclining figures and a ram headed body ground the field while red dots punctuate the space like beats.

Whisper of Worlds 5

I set the body low and the cosmos high so transformation reads as a tide, not a moment. The mushrooms act as conduits, the globes…

Horizontal constellation of mushrooms and hanging orbs, including a seahorse, curled figure, owl, frog, and embryo; bright rings and a single eye create focal points inside a smoky, dark atmosphere.

Whisper of Worlds – Diptych 9

This painting reads as a map of initiations, each creature a guardian of a different frequency: water, night, instinct, genesis. The background is turbulent but…

Vertical composition with a dancer balancing on a small orb, reaching to another; scattered spheres and mushroom clusters orbit her, using warm gold haze to amplify motion and suspended tension.

Whisper of Worlds 2

The pose feels like energy being disciplined into form, a body turning spiritual pressure into grace. The mushrooms at the head are not costume, they…