“Crepúsculo”

Artist: Rosana Auqué
Year: 202
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 120 x 120 Cms
Price: USD $15,000

About Crepúsculo

Crepúsculo is not simply a painting about twilight. It is a meditation on transition — the fragile and luminous threshold where something ends and something else begins.

Twilight is often described as the soft fading of light. Yet for me, it is the most intense moment of the day: the culmination of daylight before night takes over, or the final breath of darkness before morning emerges. It is not absence. It is concentration. It is fullness before change.

This work was created in 2022 as an exploration of that suspended instant — a state where time feels expanded, almost sacred. The sky is neither day nor night. It holds both. It vibrates with contradiction and harmony at once.

There are paintings that belong to the world, and there are paintings that remain close to the artist’s own interior landscape. Crepúsculo is one of those works I feel deeply connected to — a piece I instinctively hold onto, without rational explanation. It follows me, emotionally and physically, wherever I go.

The Material Presence of Bronze

The sky in Crepúsculo is constructed with bronze pigment layered into acrylic. This choice is not decorative — it is structural to the experience of the work.

Bronze interacts with light in a living way. Throughout the day, the surface shifts subtly in tone. Morning light cools it. Afternoon light deepens it. At dusk, it glows. The clouds seem to breathe as illumination changes. The painting does not remain static; it participates in the space around it.

I have attempted to recreate these bronze clouds in other works, but they resist repetition. In this piece, they achieved something unrepeatable — a balance between texture and atmosphere that feels almost autonomous.

When I finished the painting and stepped back, I experienced a rare sensation: it felt as if I had not painted it alone. The composition seemed to have resolved itself beyond intention. That is when I knew the work was complete.

Light as a Threshold

Crepúsculo explores the idea that the brightest moment is not always midday. Sometimes it is the instant just before transformation.

Twilight contains tension. It is a culmination — the highest point before dissolution. In that sense, it reflects cycles of human experience: endings that are also beginnings, pauses that contain movement, stillness charged with possibility.

The painting invites slow looking. It does not reveal itself immediately. Its depth emerges gradually, through time and shifting light. The surface holds both calm and intensity, silence and expansion.

This duality — permanence and change, solidity and luminosity — lies at the heart of the work.

Artistic Context

Created in 2022, Crepúsculo forms part of my broader exploration of atmosphere, emotional states, and the metaphysics of light. While materially grounded in canvas and pigment, the work seeks to operate beyond representation. It is less about depicting a sky and more about embodying a moment of transition.

The square format (120 × 120 cm) reinforces equilibrium. There is no directional dominance — only immersion.

Artwork Details

Title: Crepúsculo

Year: 2022

Medium: Bronze and acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 120 × 120 cm

Availability: Available

Price: $15,000 USD

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