Touches belongs to the Mio GESES — Sentimenti framework and the Relationships conceptual project, where emotional contact becomes a cognitive phenomenon mapped into spatial and chromatic structures.

Touches is not a figurative depiction of interaction but a conceptual visualization of relational contact as a cognitive-emotional field. The painting explores touch not as a physical act but as a multi-layered system of emotional, psychological, and chemical exchange between individuals.

In this work, contact becomes a perceptual event—an intersection of memory, desire, anticipation, and unconscious response. The canvas functions as a diagram of relational energy, where proximity and distance are encoded into color, geometry, and spatial tension.

Relationships are not only words and actions. They are micro-touches, invisible chemical and emotional signals.  

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Touches explores the subtle yet powerful dynamics of human connection.

Within AndrBel’s conceptual framework, a “touch” is interpreted not merely as physical contact but as the moment when emotional and perceptual worlds intersect.

The composition uses layered visual rhythms and intersecting structural forms to evoke the invisible exchanges that occur between individuals.

Through this approach, the painting reflects how relationships are formed through fleeting moments of connection that shape memory, perception, and emotional identity.

The Sentimenti cycle within the GESES framework focuses on emotional experience and relational perception.

The Relationships Project investigates the complex structures that emerge when individuals interact with one another.

Within this system, Touches represents a foundational work that explores the beginning of relational awareness — the moment when perception shifts from individual experience toward shared emotional space.

Touches is one of the seven anchor works within AndrBel’s conceptual archive.

These works represent the structural pillars of the artist’s evolving conceptual system and serve as reference points for future artistic and institutional developments.

Due to their significance within the broader framework of AndrBel’s research, anchor works occupy a distinct institutional and market position.

Acquiring an anchor work such as Touches represents participation in the foundational stage of AndrBel’s conceptual practice.
For collectors, these works function not only as individual paintings but also as core intellectual artifacts within the evolving GESES system.

Collectors acquiring works from the earliest stages of a conceptual cycle often become part of the historical narrative surrounding that system’s development.
Within AndrBel’s practice, these works represent early structural elements of a broader artistic research program.

The controlled circulation of the 7 core paintings establishes a scarcity structure similar to early institutional positioning observed historically in artists whose foundational works defined the market architecture of their practice. 

The acquisition is accompanied by a structured framework designed to protect long-term value:

• Minimum holding period before resale: 2 years
• Artist Right of First Refusal on resale
• 8% artist participation on secondary market transactions
• Institutional exhibition loan opportunities within ARTHALL BEL4224