Carpanta

  Title: Carpanta
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 30 x 40 cm
Year: 2020
Artist: Mariano Raia

This work depicts a dreamlike figure seated at a table in darkness, ready to dine. The figure holds a knife and fork over an empty plate, while its long, hungry tongue stretches from its mouth to the plate, where it appears to cut its own tongue as if it were meat.

The scene unfolds inside a triangular house: the right side opens onto a daytime field with a tree full of apples and a sun, while the left side shows the same field at night under the moon, with a cow calmly posing.

The work explores themes of consumption, duality, hunger, and the tension between light and darkness within a landscape imbued with symbolism and strangeness.