Itaca

Oil on canvas

Raffaella Bruzzi is an Italo-Swiss contemporary painter whose work explores the emotional and perceptual dimensions of landscape. Through subtle chromatic transitions and layered surfaces, she creates meditative spaces that balance abstraction and memory, inviting the viewer into a quiet dialogue between nature and inner experience.

Itaca evokes the idea of a distant horizon—both geographical and symbolic. The horizontal bands of blue suggest water, sky, and reflection, dissolving into one another and creating a sense of calm continuity. The composition recalls a place not as a fixed destination, but as a state of longing and return, suspended between presence and absence.

With restrained gestures and a luminous palette, Bruzzi transforms the landscape into a contemplative field. Itaca becomes a metaphor for inner navigation, where stillness, patience, and subtle movement guide the viewer toward a personal sense of arrival.

CHF 2’200