The Void (from the Series "Entropy")

Oil on Canvas. Unframed 31"x39" / 78cm x 100 cm

 This enigmatic oil painting by Argentinian artist Ernesto Fernández Alle opens more doors than it closes. At its center stands a solitary, incandescent figure—neither fully human nor entirely mythical—held in suspension against an infinite void. Opposite him floats a cloudlike blue entity, its face emerging softly from the haze. Between the two, a thin filament stretches like a whispered thought, a fragile conduit carrying something unspoken across the darkness.

What passes between them?
Is it memory, desire, doubt—perhaps even a part of the self that has drifted free? The tension of the scene lies in this ambiguity. Their “conversation” is silent, yet charged, a kind of psychic exchange that invites us to imagine the inner narratives we rarely articulate.

The vessel in the figure’s hand, sprouting a blood-red tree, complicates the mystery further. It may be a symbol of life held carefully—and precariously—in one’s grasp. It could stand for memory, lineage, or the emotional roots that nourish and bind us. Or it may represent the fragile things we carry into every encounter with the unknown.

What makes this work so compelling is that it resists a singular interpretation. Instead, it serves as an open portal: a psychological mirror where viewers can project their own stories, anxieties, hopes, and unresolved conversations with themselves. The intimate tension you note becomes an invitation—to pause, to question, and to let the painting reveal not just its hidden possibilities, but our own.