Double Moon Rise (2025) reflects Kyle Coniglio’s meditative engagement with landscape, sensuality, and the emotional resonance of natural light. Created after the artist’s move from New York City to upstate New York, the work evokes the communal and intimate experiences of swimming with friends in the region’s secluded ponds and rivers. Coniglio draws upon the traditions of Romanticism and Rococo painting, reimagining them within a contemporary context that explores humanity’s longing to reconnect with nature as a counterpoint to the techno-capitalist world.

For Coniglio, the natural world encompasses not only the external landscape but also the internal terrain of human desire. In Double Moon Rise, a figure’s body becomes both an object of contemplation and a gateway into a dreamlike space suffused with calm and warmth. The golden light of late afternoon—suggested by the rising moon—infuses the scene with nostalgia and quiet reverie. With characteristic wit and sensuality, Coniglio positions the figure’s body in the foreground as an invitation for the viewer to “swim” into the painting’s color, atmosphere, and pleasure.

在《两重月升》（2025）中，凯尔·康尼里奥围绕着自然光触发的情绪体验，延展出对风景与情感的沉思。作品创作于艺术家从纽约市迁居上州之后，描绘了他与友人一同在该地区的隐秘水域中游泳的体验。康尼里奥在当代语境中重新演绎了浪漫主义与洛可可绘画的传统，探讨人类在科技资本主义世界中，渴望重新与自然建立联系的愿望。

对艺术家而言，自然不仅是外在的风景，也涵盖内在的欲望。在《两重月升》中，人体是视线首先触达的对象，是通向梦境的入口。画中的世界笼罩着宁静温柔的气息。空中升起了月亮，表明时间是傍晚——静谧和怀旧的诗意时刻。康尼里奥以其特有的敏锐和狡黠，将人体置于画面前景，邀请观者潜入画中的色彩、气息与愉悦之中。