[Focus] – Antony Squizzato, The Kingdom

Acrylic on canvas, 80 × 100 cm, 2024.

In The Kingdom, Antony Squizzato constructs an abstract realm built from color, balance, and interlocking forms. The composition resembles a structure held together by bodies, arms, arches, and geometric elements, each playing a precise role in maintaining the overall stability of the image.

Strong, opposing primary colors – red, blue, and yellow – create visual tension while remaining perfectly balanced. No single element dominates; the composition holds through contrast and mutual support. A large yellow disc, suggestive of a sun, radiates warmth and energy, acting as a central force around which the “kingdom” takes shape.

This logic resonates with Squizzato’s New Constructivism, developed after years spent navigating between artistic freedom and the structured demands of creative industries. The kingdom is not fixed or monumental. It is fragile, modular, and collective, a system that exists only because its elements cooperate.

At the same time, the image quietly brings us back to childhood, to sandcastles built together, where entire worlds emerge from simple gestures and shared imagination, knowing they may disappear but building them matters anyway.