Hand-signed Mixed Media Original Artwork by Raphael Mazzucco. Inspired by the architecture, energy and contrasts of Rajasthan, internationally acclaimed artist and photographer Raphael Mazzucco’s 2026 body of work draws from a month-long journey through New Delhi, Jaipur, Ajmer, Jodhpur and Bikaner. Travelling with photographer and videographer Albi Jakici and model Sophia Petricenko, Mazzucco moved instinctively through Rajasthan's ancient cities — surrendering to the rhythm of colour that doesn't ask permission, beauty of ornamental Rajput architecture and city walls that have absorbed decades of heat and touch. Antara — Sanskrit for the space between — captures something beyond documentation. These works exist in the charged distance between memory and presence, between stillness and chaos, between the photograph and what it cannot hold. More than twenty-five years after his first encounter with India, Mazzucco returned not to rediscover a place, but to step back into a feeling — one found in surfaces shaped by time, where buildings absorb the rhythm of daily life and colour settles, fades, and intensifies into something lived rather than designed. Across each work, the figure is not imposed onto the environment, but absorbed into it — emerging from arches, courtyards and doorways as though shaped by the same forces of time, light and human presence. These are not images of place, but of atmosphere: moments that exist, like Antara itself, in the space between. The hand-pored resin collection includes richly saturated colour works — pigment pushing back with the same unapologetic intensity found on Jodhpur's blue walls and Jaipur's fading facades — alongside a series of monochrome photographic pieces that strip away distraction to reveal something more timeless underneath. In black and white, the figures merge with architecture, absorbed into arches and courtyards as though emerging from the stone itself. “In Northern India, I'm not stepping into a blank space. I'm entering a place that already has its own rhythm, its own visual language. The buildings aren't just structures. They absorb everything around them—dust, heat, time, human presence—and the colour settles into that history. It fades, it peels, it intensifies in places you wouldn't expect. That's what I'm drawn to. I'm not looking at architecture as something clean or designed. I'm looking at what it becomes after life moves through it.” – Raphael Mazzucco This artwork is a hand-signed mixed media original by Raphael Mazzucco. Find out more about Antara 2026 or alternatively shop more Mazzucco artwork.
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