French Mixed Media Painting on Paper No. 05 by Angel Darisio *Originally $450*

A French double-sided mixed media painting on paper by Angel Darisio, featuring two contrasting abstract compositions that explore color, texture, and expressive mark-making.

One side is defined by broad, sweeping passages of forest green pigment against a warm ivory ground. Dense, textured brushstrokes move diagonally across the surface, creating a rhythmic arrangement of overlapping forms and exposed paper. A saturated cobalt blue band anchors the lower edge, while subtle accents of crimson, pink, and blue frame the composition, introducing contrast to the predominantly green palette.

The reverse presents a lighter, more open composition, with washes of vibrant turquoise and pale blue dispersed across an ivory background. Loose, gestural markings and delicate traces of pigment create subtle variations in texture, while touches of ochre, coral, and deep burgundy concentrate along the edges. The application of color allows the natural surface of the paper to remain prominent, giving the composition an airy, atmospheric quality.

About the Artist
Angel Darisio (born 1951) is a Franco-Italian artist whose work bridges abstraction, writing, and material experimentation. Emerging in the late 1970s, Darisio developed a visual language grounded in the dialogue between gesture and structure — where paint, pigment, and the trace of the hand become a form of written expression.

Working across painting, works on paper, and installation, Darisio’s compositions explore the tension between surface and depth, silence and inscription. His practice reflects the broader European movement of lyrical abstraction and concrete poetry, where the mark itself becomes both symbol and texture.

In 1992, the Bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence presented Darisio’s exhibition Œuvres Écrites, in dialogue with Italian artist Franco Beltrametti. The exhibition highlighted his meditative approach to abstraction — layered, chromatic fields that evoke palimpsests of thought and memory.

Darisio’s works have circulated through French, Italian, and British galleries, including presentations with Streett Marburg & Charlotte Casadéjus (London) and Proantic (Paris). His pieces from the 1970s–1990s — such as Calligram and the Œuvres Écrites series — are recognized for their balance of restraint and emotion, situating him among the lineage of European painters who merged art and language into a single poetic gesture.