RED contortionist Painting

The Beauty of Burning In ABBA’s work, burning becomes both sign and language. Within this chimeric and hypertrophic figure, soot rises to a spiritual substance — a residue, a testimony of an existence that burns. Matter itself becomes memory, a reflection of a personality long consumed beneath the surface. The artist invites a suspension: one feels gently led into a muffled, weightless space, where thought and body drift between dream and trance. It is a pop and dissonant world — that of contemporary society — which demands that human beings react, or pretend to react, to the endless wars that surround them. In this fragile, interior landscape emerges a slender figure, a semi-empty shell, almost a mask — a symbol of invisible struggle, of an intimate confrontation with oneself. ABBA’s pictorial research seeks a beauty that hurts: an incomprehensible, elusive, painful beauty. His canvases, scarred by burns and voids, narrate a mark that changes and twists but never disappears. It is an existential déjà vu repeating endlessly, an obsessive movement that multiplies the self into countless reflections, all trapped within the mirror of the subconscious. Through the reworking of images drawn from media streams — computers, television, social networks — the artist composes a visionary catalogue of humanity in decline. Faces and bodies are deformed, scorched, emptied, until they become relics of contemporary consciousness: fragments of humankind dissolving into its own representation. The origin of this poetics stems from a single image: the shadows of vaporized bodies imprinted on Hiroshima’s walls. Immaterial remains of erased presences — silhouettes burned by the explosion — become the visual echo of surviving souls. In them, ABBA recognizes the paradox of survival: disappearance as the ultimate form of memory. Within his language, fire holds a central role — both destruction and rebirth, erasure and testimony. It is the artist’s primal gesture: a flame that burns the surface, yet becomes the very medium through which life transforms. In fire, everything is consumed — and everything is revealed.