Ab Major - Variations 13 — Acrylic on Paper by Arnaud Quercy
Acrylic on Paper, 21.0×30.0cm
Arnaud Quercy, 2025 — France
Where piano chords become visible through precise color translation
Technical Specifications
- Medium: Acrylic on Paper
- Dimensions: 21.0×30.0cm
- Weight: 0.1 kg
- Created: 2025, France
- Certificate: 20251123-0070
- SKU: Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0927 / 2025
- ✓ Original artwork, hand-painted by Arnaud Quercy
- ✓ Certificate of authenticity included
Arnaud Quercy is a Parisian artist working across painting, music, and sculpture. His practice is grounded in Ideamorphism — the principle that a work of art does not carry meaning, but triggers it. Each piece is engineered to diffract differently through each person who encounters it.
He creates and exhibits at Art Quam Anima, his gallery-atelier at 28 rue du Dragon, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.
About This Artwork
This work explores the visual representation of an Ab Major chord through chromesthetic translation, part of the Synesthetic Explorations collection. The composition translates a piano étude into color relationships, where the Ab Major triad appears as blue, orange, and blue-violet tones corresponding to the chord's harmonic structure.
Blue tones dominate the composition, occupying nearly half the surface through grayish purple and cadet blue areas. Orange elements provide substantial presence through steel gray and orangered sections, while blue-violet tones appear as grayish purple accents. The acrylic medium allows for clear color separation and defined geometric forms that mirror the chord's spread voicing across multiple octaves.
The work measures 21.0 × 30.0 cm and weighs 0.1 kg, created on paper with acrylic paint. This piece represents variation 13 within the Synesthetic Explorations series, exploring piano studies through cycle of fifth mapping. Certificate of authenticity number 20251123-0070 accompanies the work, with the artist's signature located bottom right.
Where this work lives
Provenance
- Origin: Arnaud Quercy, Paris, France, 2025
- Acquired: 2026-05-18 — Private collection — USA during Through the Aperture — Research on Harmony
- Series: Ab Major
- Collection: Synesthetic Explorations
- Technique: Acrylic
Exhibitions 3
- Salon d'art contemporain – Metamorphose 2025–2026, Paris (2025-12-26 → 2026-01-04, Halle des Blancs Manteaux, Paris)
- Art Quam Anima – Pre-opening (2026-01-31 → 2026-02-28, Art Quam Anima, Paris)
- Through the Aperture — Research on Harmony (2026-03-09 → 2026-04-30, Art Quam Anima, Paris)
Other works in this series 15
- Ab Major - Reflexions 3
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 1
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 2
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 3
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 4
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 5
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 6
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 7
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 8
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 9
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 10
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 11
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variations 12
- Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variations 14
Documented at 4
- Catalogue Raisonné — Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variations 13 — Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variations 13 — Chromesthetic Piano Translation — Arnaud Quercy (2025)
- Nanopublication — Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variations 13 — Digital Image Documentation - aqc0927_img_full_1932x2898_webp
- Nanopublication — Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variations 13 — Physical Specifications
- Nanopublication — Ab Major - Research on Harmony - Variations 13 — Computational Image Analysis - AQC0927
