Star Field, a large format painting is the continuation of an investigation that Rui Toscano has been developing and which began with the exhibition The Great Curve, at Espaço Chiado 8, in 2009. The investigation results from the search of meaning in the perception of cosmic space and the fascination for its immensity that has, for thousands of years, led humankind to explore it. At a first gaze the work is monochromatic and abstract, and it then reveals what could be the observation of a starry sky, resulting from a pictorial composition of dots and circles (references to possible nebulas and constellations) in white, blue and grey, that appear luminous and vibrant over the blackness of the background, between fiction and reality. In this way, a consequent sensation of depth is given to the bi-dimensionality of the work, by the contrast and the planes that are created. That optical experience originates in the spectator the feeling of vertigo and disquiet before what is portrayed as infinite, mysterious, immeasurable, and crushing. Star Field is the subjective representation of the Universe as a landscape that lies between figurative and abstract, visible and invisible, in the search for a greater complexity and multiplicity of interpretations.

With the passage of time, the stellar elements expand, cool down and change colour and, because of the enormous distance they are from earth, when observed, they may already be extinct or transformed into another celestial body. Thus, the perception of linear time in this painting can also be questioned, since looking at the stars can also mean looking at the past.