Indian Summer Sky 2
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2026
Patrick Piccinelli
Indian Summer Sky 2
2026
Acrylic paint, pigment varnish
Acrylic paint, pigment varnish
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Inspired by U2’s song “Indian Summer Sky”
There is a version on paper similar to this painting.
Bono’s song oscillates between suspended, almost contemplative moments and sudden bursts of energy. I translate exactly that: the large geometric blocks of color (red, blue, orange, pink) are islands of formal calm, while the splashes and diagonal gray scratches embody the irruption of life, of the uncontrollable—the storm rumbling behind a summer sky.
The black frames—memory and loss
The black rectangles superimposed over the colors suggest windows, framed memories sliding over one another. U2 builds this track on a bittersweet nostalgia: something beautiful that is slipping away.
I paint what U2 composed: the violent beauty of a fleeting moment, between blinding light and muted melancholy, between geometric order and organic splashes—an Indian summer sky, suspended just before the fall.
Inspired by U2’s song “Indian Summer Sky”
There is a version on paper similar to this painting.
Bono’s song oscillates between suspended, almost contemplative moments and sudden bursts of energy. I translate exactly that: the large geometric blocks of color (red, blue, orange, pink) are islands of formal calm, while the splashes and diagonal gray scratches embody the irruption of life, of the uncontrollable—the storm rumbling behind a summer sky.
The black frames—memory and loss
The black rectangles superimposed over the colors suggest windows, framed memories sliding over one another. U2 builds this track on a bittersweet nostalgia: something beautiful that is slipping away.
I paint what U2 composed: the violent beauty of a fleeting moment, between blinding light and muted melancholy, between geometric order and organic splashes—an Indian summer sky, suspended just before the fall.
