DALILA D’ALTE — SURREALIST COMPOSITION ✒️🌑

There are works that do not reveal themselves all at once — they draw us in slowly, like a dream unfolding in silence. This surrealist composition by Dalila D’Alte, executed in pen and collage on board, lives precisely in that suspended territory between imagination and mystery, where forms, symbols and fragments seem to speak their own secret language.

I am deeply drawn to the strength of this black-and-white universe. The circular elements, the mechanical shapes, the floating figure, the sharp lines and the organic curves create an almost cosmic tension, as if we were standing before an inner map of thought, memory and invention. It is a work of great graphic intelligence, but also of emotion — austere in colour, yet immensely rich in rhythm, movement and poetic suggestion.

What fascinates me most is this dialogue between precision and enigma. Each section appears to open a different realm: celestial, mechanical, symbolic, almost architectural. The collage introduces disruption, while the pen restores discipline and flow. The result is a striking composition, sophisticated and contemplative, with that rare power to transform a wall into a place of reflection and wonder. ✨

Work by the artist Dalila D’Alte.
Pen and collage on board.
Approx. dimensions: 25.5 x 27 cm.