Child I

In this work from the Children cycle, the child figure appears vertically, as a body still in formation. The network of white lines does not define a stable contour, but holds a presence that remains uncertain and exposed to the dispersion of the pictorial field. The grey ground and fragmented chromatic nuclei make the process of emergence itself visible: what matters is not the completed image, but the tension between appearance and restraint. Antonio Sorrentino explores the theme of childhood through abstract painting, evoking the casts of Pompeii and a semiotic reflection close to Greimas and Eco, where absence becomes a generative device of meaning.