Caroline Pera/Pulse/Fine-tuning
Pulse series · Original painting
An explosive splatter of purple and violet across a wide, landscape-format linen — dynamic and energetic.
This work is in a private collection
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Pulse emerges from the same bare linen that grounded Flow, but arrives at a different reckoning. Where Flow moved in one unbroken current — effortless, unified — Pulse is animated by tension. Bold, spontaneous marks — splattered, poured, driven across the canvas in a single decisive stroke — meet the exquisitely rendered, striated forms that have become Pera's signature language. Neither side dominates. They speak to one another, push against one another, and ultimately evolve from one another: the raw gesture informing the refined form, the controlled giving something freer permission to emerge.
Each painting holds two truths at once. The force of the mark and the patience of the image. A breath and a week. Rather than resolving this tension, Pera inhabits it — finding in that charged, in-between space something that feels like a heartbeat: irregular, vital, alive.
Each painting is made in oil on unprimed linen, left bare so the natural texture and warmth of the canvas become part of the work. The forms are rendered slowly, layer by layer, with complete precision.
Caroline Pera is a French-American painter based in Milan, trained at Central Saint Martins, London. Her work is held in the private collections of Etro, Loro Piana and financier Claudio Costamagna.
