{"title":"Ethan Shard","description":"\u003cp\u003eDoctors refer to skin that has lost its protection as exposed tissue. Ethan Shard seems to believe that some faces exist permanently in this condition. His figures inhabit colours that cannot sustain them: inflamed reds, motionless blues, whites clinging to the face like a bandage. Hands seek one another, bodies lean towards each other, and eyes grow until they occupy the place of the wound they are trying to conceal. Painting repairs nothing; it merely confirms that every fragility needs a surface on which to remain open.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"retrato-palido-azul-cobalto-ethan-shard","title":"Pale portrait with chords of cobalt blue","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quadragallery.com\/en\/collections\/ethan-shard\" title=\"Explore the collection and Fine Art works by Ethan Shard\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEthan Shard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e pares the gesture back until the face is reduced to its essentials: the pallor of the background seeps into the skin itself, allowing only the intense blue of the eyes and the red of the lips and bow to interrupt the overall chromatic restraint. The surface cracks, treated as a deliberate part of the pictorial field, suggest an elapsed time that the youthfulness of the face contradicts. The linear trace crossing the background, barely visible, acts as a web of contained tension behind the serene frontality. The open, fixed gaze carries the full expressive weight of a work that deliberately renounces colour in order to concentrate on the intensity of visual contact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ethan Shard","offers":[{"title":"S (30 x 30 cm)","offer_id":58213995151708,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (50 x 50 cm)","offer_id":58213995184476,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (100 x 100 cm)","offer_id":58213995217244,"sku":null,"price":390.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1034\/4978\/8764\/files\/quadra-gallery-ethan-shard-038_255fe191-e258-4ca0-acbb-0c47ac04b1cc.jpg?v=1784355436"},{"product_id":"saturacion-rojo-cadmio-ethan-shard","title":"Saturation in cadmium red medium and titanium impasto","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quadragallery.com\/en\/collections\/ethan-shard\" title=\"Explore the collection and Fine Art works by Ethan Shard\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEthan Shard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e saturates the background in an absolute red that acts as a constant pressure, a field of energy against which the figure, dressed almost entirely in white, emerges as a chromatic negative. The nervous linear trace leaves the drawing process itself visible beneath the paint, as though the skin were exposing its own underlying structure. The eyes, shaded in blue against the red of the lips and background, sustain a strange calm within such chromatic tension. The expansive, almost feline pose occupies the space with relaxed authority, indifferent to the intensity that surrounds her and, paradoxically, holds her in place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ethan Shard","offers":[{"title":"S (30 x 30 cm)","offer_id":58214020579676,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (50 x 50 cm)","offer_id":58214020612444,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (100 x 100 cm)","offer_id":58214020645212,"sku":null,"price":390.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1034\/4978\/8764\/files\/quadra-gallery-ethan-shard-035.jpg?v=1783360928"},{"product_id":"variacion-de-blanco-de-zinc-sobre-base-de-azul-ultramar-ethan-shard","title":"Variation of zinc white over an ultramarine blue ground","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quadragallery.com\/en\/collections\/ethan-shard\" title=\"Explore the collection and Fine Art works by Ethan Shard\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEthan Shard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e applies paint as though it were skin itself: thick layers build the face into relief, almost sculptural against the smooth plane of the two-colour background. The body inclines towards the viewer, hands stained with red extending forwards, creating an uncomfortable proximity that the fixed, direct blue gaze does nothing to soften. The mottled shirt introduces a vibrant pattern that contrasts with the chromatic solidity of the surroundings, cleanly divided between earth and water. The deliberately raw pictorial gesture turns texture into emotion before composition can become narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ethan Shard","offers":[{"title":"S (30 x 30 cm)","offer_id":58214223315292,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (50 x 50 cm)","offer_id":58214223348060,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (100 x 100 cm)","offer_id":58214223380828,"sku":null,"price":390.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1034\/4978\/8764\/files\/quadra-gallery-ethan-shard-036.jpg?v=1783362035"},{"product_id":"naturaleza-muerta-con-barrido-de-bermellon-y-plata-ethan-shard","title":"Still life with a sweep of vermilion and silver","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quadragallery.com\/en\/collections\/ethan-shard\" title=\"Explore the collection and Fine Art works by Ethan Shard\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEthan Shard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e arranges three bodies in an almost anatomical register, aligned like specimens against a neutral ground that functions as a pictorial dissection table. The red, applied with gestural violence, gathers around the gills and descends in runnels that affirm their condition as exposed living matter. The black eyes, identical in their circular fixity, hold the viewer’s gaze from three slightly different directions, multiplying the sensation of scrutiny. The impastoed surface turns each scale into a tactile field, where the paint itself seems to acquire the moisture and sheen of something freshly drawn from the water.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ethan Shard","offers":[{"title":"S (30 x 30 cm)","offer_id":58214236946780,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (50 x 50 cm)","offer_id":58214236979548,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (100 x 100 cm)","offer_id":58214237012316,"sku":null,"price":390.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1034\/4978\/8764\/files\/quadra-gallery-ethan-shard-037.jpg?v=1783362142"},{"product_id":"estudio-de-tierras-y-ocre-sintetico-plano-turquesa-ethan-shard","title":"Study of earth pigments and synthetic ochre on a turquoise plane","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quadragallery.com\/en\/collections\/ethan-shard\" title=\"Explore the collection and Fine Art works by Ethan Shard\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEthan Shard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e elongates the figure to the point of fragility, a linear body that gravity seems barely able to sustain above the ochre ground. The face, dissolved into patches of paint rather than drawn, resists any definitive psychological reading, wavering between mask and wound. Behind it, the flat blue of sky and sea compresses the scene into two almost abstract bands, while tiny figures in the distance accentuate, through contrast of scale, the protagonist’s solitary magnitude. The long, oblique cast shadow anchors to the ground what the pictorial gesture persistently seeks to dematerialise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ethan Shard","offers":[{"title":"S (30 x 30 cm)","offer_id":58308834722140,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (50 x 50 cm)","offer_id":58308834754908,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (100 x 100 cm)","offer_id":58308834787676,"sku":null,"price":390.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1034\/4978\/8764\/files\/quadra-gallery-ethan-shard-033.jpg?v=1784355681"},{"product_id":"composicion-bicroma-ethan-shard","title":"Bichrome composition with scrapings of ivory black and flesh","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quadragallery.com\/en\/collections\/ethan-shard\" title=\"Explore the collection and Fine Art works by Ethan Shard\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEthan Shard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e fuses the couple into a single pictorial block, their bodies intertwined until the boundaries that would normally separate them disappear. Their faces, whitened into a shared mask, possess the same pallor, levelling their features and placing them outside naturalistic time, closer to archetype than portrait. The horizontal band dividing the background into grey and blue acts as an abstract horizon, an indeterminate space that anchors the couple’s intimacy to no specific place. The gesture of their interlaced hands, barely legible among strokes and drips, sustains tenderness beneath the roughness of the pictorial treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ethan Shard","offers":[{"title":"S (30 x 30 cm)","offer_id":58308835148124,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (50 x 50 cm)","offer_id":58308835180892,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (100 x 100 cm)","offer_id":58308835213660,"sku":null,"price":390.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1034\/4978\/8764\/files\/quadra-gallery-ethan-shard-034_4e1a4fb2-8932-4350-bab1-65bcd7472e75.jpg?v=1784355801"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1034\/4978\/8764\/collections\/quadra-gallery-ethan-shard-038_255fe191-e258-4ca0-acbb-0c47ac04b1cc.jpg?v=1785477412","url":"https:\/\/quadragallery.com\/en\/collections\/ethan-shard.oembed","provider":"QUADRA GALLERY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}