About the work

She is reaching for something that isn't there yet.

KyumiX-4 captures the Kyumi lineage in its most introspective register a figure in pure profile, long mechanical hair cascading behind her like a river in slow motion, one hand raised at the edge of the composition with fingers slightly parted, as if testing the boundary between herself and the air in front of her. Nothing in the frame answers her gesture. The space remains empty. And yet she holds the position with the patience of something that has calculated the probability of contact and decided to wait.

Di Nicolantonio renders the mechanical architecture here with exceptional delicacy the articulated hand is a marvel of engineered anatomy, each phalanx drawn with the precision of a designer who has studied both robotics and the human skeleton. The hair flows with organic freedom against a body of controlled mechanical precision. The tension between the two is the drawing's central argument: this is a machine that moves like memory.

At her hip, a turbine disc the engine of something larger than locomotion. At her throat, the sensor cluster of the Kyumi lineage. And in the raised hand, a question addressed to the world: am I capable of touch, or only of contact?

An original drawing from the Robots series by artist-futurist Sébastien Di Nicolantonio.

Edition Unique original — one of a kind

Signature Hand-signed by the artist

Authentication Sold with certificate of authenticity and gallery invoice

Technique Original drawing — pen on paper

Dimensions 29.7 × 42 cm — A3 format

Framing Unframed — framing available upon request