Private Sale
Domingo Milella
El Castillo, Discs, Spain 2016
Inkjet print mounted between Plexiglass and Dibond
Print 80 x 100 cm. 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.
Frame 85 x 105 cm. 33 1/2 x 41 3/8 in.
Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP
Executed in 2016.
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Details
Print 80 x 100 cm. 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.
Frame 85 x 105 cm. 33 1/2 x 41 3/8 in.
Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP
Provenance
Directly from the artist studio
Exhibition
Sotheby's Maison, Hong Kong, Domingo Milella LIMINAL, 10 June – 20 August 2026
Early Upper Paleolithic (ca. 40,000–30,000 years ago)
The Gallery of Discs in El Castillo Cave (Cantabria) takes its name from an impressive 25-meter-long horizontal frieze composed of more than a hundred circular shapes created by blowing red pigment. In its deepest section, the initial row of discs splits, with larger, more widely spaced shapes above and smaller, closer-together ones below. The image corresponds to this section, showing how each disc contains a denser central area surrounded by a halo where the sprayed pigment is dispersed. This expansive composition opens (or closes) with a red negative handprint created using the same blowing technique. This combination of negative handprints and discs is found in other caves, such as the French cave of Pech Merle, and points to a symbolism hidden from our understanding and prevalent in an archaic phase of Paleolithic art.