Karenina Fabrizzi

We live in a time of constant movement. Screens glow from morning until night, headlines compete for our attention, and endless streams of images pass before our eyes faster than we can truly absorb them. We are surrounded by information, opinions, noise, urgency, and demands. The modern world offers many wonders, yet it can also leave us feeling overstimulated, disconnected, and quietly exhausted. So Why Modern Life Feels So Exhausting? and What to Do About It? There is a particular feeling...

Color is one of the most immediate ways we connect with a painting, yet its role reaches far beyond what we first perceive, this is not a secret. It may seem self-evident that color is essential to art—after all, what is a painting without it? And yet, the history of art itself gently challenges this assumption. Think, for instance, of Lucio Fontana, the Italian artist who radically redefined the surface of painting. In his Concetti Spaziali , Fontana cut through the canvas, opening it rather...

Sometimes artists deliberately move away from what is immediately pleasing. Not out of rejection for beauty itself, but out of a need to go beyond it. A work that is too comfortable can be absorbed quickly and forgotten just as fast. By introducing tension—through composition, color, texture, or subject—the artist slows the viewer down. The piece resists being consumed at a glance. It asks for attention, and more importantly, it asks for reflection. This kind of approach can feel like a form...