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Pastel colours, rounded shapes, smooth surfaces, sexual allusions - Anna Nero's paintings arouse desire through what they show. The interplay of rigour and playfulness, figuration and abstraction, and extremely precise and gestural brushstrokes create a harmony of contrasts. But there is something else in Nero's paintings that this harmony conceals on an aesthetic level and that prevents a pleasant or complacent effect. It arises from what is left invisible or not clarified: Whilst we are confronted with a suggestion of spaces and sometimes more or less obvious objects, i.e. we are …