Expressionist Composition 00084 – Oil and Charcoal on Canvas by Luis Mandiola
$12,000
Oil and charcoal on canvas (2023) is an original painting by Chilean artist Luis Mandiola. This work explores the tension between gesture and structure through layered strokes of oil and direct charcoal marks on the canvas.
Expressionist Composition 00084 is an oil and charcoal work on canvas in which architectural and vertical forms — white, stacked, and tightly organized — rise against a deep yellow field. The image is dense with accumulated marks: charcoal works against oil, creating areas where the dark line defines the edge of a form or interrupts a plane of color. The vertical emphasis gives the composition a sense of upward pressure, as if the structures are growing or reaching — built and organic at once.
The warm yellow figure at the center — visible through openings in the architectural mass — functions as both light source and point of visual rest within a composition otherwise held in sustained tension. Against the deep blue of the surrounding field, this vertical yellow form reads as presence, energy, and warmth. This is one of Mandiola’s most structured abstract works, demonstrating his ability to organize complex mark-making into a coherent spatial whole that holds together as both surface and image.
The relationship between the architectural and the human — the structure and the figure within it — is one of the recurring themes in Mandiola’s work across media. Created in 2023. Ideal for collectors of contemporary expressionist and abstract painting from Chile.
“Oil and charcoal on canvas. Year 2023. 59.4 x 49.2 in. (studio)”
