Pink Barbie, 2024

Mixed media on walnut floater frame
100 × 100 cm
Unique work

Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Hand-signed
UV torch included

Price on request

All works at CasaGalleria.ART are originals by Yuri Catania, made by hand in the atelier: unique pieces or numbered and signed limited editions. We do not sell reproductions.

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About the artwork

“Pink Barbie” is a unique work by Yuri Catania (Rovio, Switzerland, 2024) from the Moon Flower Mission series. A square field of pastel pink, soft as sugar, turns out up close to be a lunar landscape in relief: craters, furrows and folds in the material draw an imaginary Moon. In the upper right third a tiny astronaut in a white suit stands beside his long black shadow. The colour takes all hardness away from the Moon and turns it into a playful place, without erasing its solitude. The same composition returns, in a brighter peony pink, in Pink Peonia (2026). Mixed media with direct painting on prepared aluminium, in a walnut floater frame. A work from Yuri Catania's Yuri in Wonderland collection, the heart of his poetics: a surreal, mixed-media series in which constellations of painted flowers meet the exploration of space, and in which painting, photography and technology merge into a single language. The astronaut, a symbol of technology and research, is the figure through whom the artist reflects on the relationship between humans, nature and the digital world. Each work is conceived to be experienced. Under the UV torch supplied, hidden colours and details emerge, visible at the same frequency at which insects perceive them on flowers. UV fluorescent pigments: the work reveals itself in the dark with the UV torch supplied with the work. With augmented reality, activated after purchase in the collector's home, the image comes to life when the work is framed with a smartphone, in an experience of sounds and visions created by the artist.

Technical details

Technique	mixed media
Support and mounting	walnut floater frame
Dimensions	100 × 100 cm
Edition	Unique work
Signature	Hand-signed
Certificate	Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Provenance	Directly from the artist's atelier, Rovio (CH)
Artwork code	YC-MFM-PNKBRB-2024-UNC

Technical details

Technique	mixed media
Support and mounting	walnut floater frame
Dimensions	100 × 100 cm
Edition	Unique work
Signature	Hand-signed
Certificate	Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Provenance	Directly from the artist's atelier, Rovio (CH)
Artwork code	YC-MFM-PNKBRB-2024-UNC

The artist

Yuri Catania

Swiss-Italian visual artist, born in Milan in 1975, he lives and works in Rovio, in Val Mara, at the foot of Monte Generoso, home to the CasaGalleria.ART gallery-atelier. He studied Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano.

His work combines photography, painting and digital tools in a single language: photographs taken by the artist himself, from the atelier garden to the moon seen through a telescope, are composed, printed, pasted onto concrete and wood supports and repainted with fluorescent acrylics that reveal themselves under ultraviolet light. His main collections – Yuri in Wonderland with the Astro Girl series, A Day of Flowers, Black Flowers Secret Garden and My Generoso – revolve around a constant theme: the relationship between nature, technology and the human gaze, with the Rovio garden and its biodiversity as the starting point.

Selected exhibitions and awards

2026 · Arte Laguna Prize, finalist in the Urban Art / Street Art section with Astro Credy, Arsenale Nord, Venice (6–29 November)
2016 · Art is Hope, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, curated by René-Julien Praz, by invitation, in support of AIDES
2015 · Art is Hope, PIASA, Paris, curated by René-Julien Praz, by invitation
2013 · Art is Hope, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, curated by René-Julien Praz, by invitation