Mirabasso - Ricordo gioioso

TECHNIQUE and UNIQUENESS OF THE WORK:
Each painting by Carlo Mirabasso, painter since 1975, is created entirely by hand, excluding the use of prints, reproductions or other photomechanical techniques.
The artist starts from a white, textured support (canvas or panel), then traces the composition of the image with a pencil, allowing the work to evolve naturally.
Subsequently, through the skillful use of the brush, Mirabasso creates textures, glazes and depth using acrylic and extra-fine oils.
Once finished, the work is protected with a transparent, high-quality glossy varnish, which, in addition to protecting it from external agents, gives the painting luminosity and brilliance.
Each work is a unique and unrepeatable piece.

DESCRIPTION:
Dimensions: 20 x 20 cm
Technique: oil and acrylic on MDF panel.
Painting base prepared with a textured ground.
Surface of the work protected with a final transparent and glossy varnish.
One-of-a-kind piece hand-signed on front and back.
Certificate of Authenticity.
Work framed without frame.
Will be carefully packed and shipped with tracking number.

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In the Umbria region, hearth of the pre-Renaissance era,
important for those first realistic sparks that sprang from nature and from those empirical forms of spatial representation,
lives Carlo Mirabasso.
A humble yet reflective artist who, intelligently, merges a sometimes geometric and rhythmic way of painting with the primal expressive spontaneity of medieval world volumes, perhaps the embryo of all modern art to follow.
A “delicate harmony” that in his panel works, as in the 14th-century altarpieces, between studies of pre-Cubist lineage and landscape verticalities, completes itself in his painting techniques, almost marble-like; charged with a subtle material symbolism bearing a mural meaning in which the fresco technique reappears, and, in that calm of places, dear to De Chirico, where space and time stop in the frame’s image, Mirabasso brings back to the surface sensations of metaphysical memory.
Text by Andrea Galante

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BIOGRAPHY
Carlo Mirabasso was born in Tivoli in 1959.
In 1979 he graduated from the Liceo Artistico Ripetta in Rome.
Between the 1980s and 1990s, besides painting,
he worked in graphic design and illustration,
collaborating with numerous advertising agencies and publishing houses.
At the beginning of the 1990s he began painting his first metaphysical compositions, refining a personal painting technique on panel that would become fundamental to his research, tracing a path that would lead him to establish himself as a professional artist. Since 1996 he has abandoned graphic advertising and dedicated himself exclusively to painting.
He has participated in numerous exhibitions, exhibiting his works in Rome, Milan, Florence, Bari, Teramo, Potenza, Padua, Auckland (New Zealand), Marbella (Spain), Taipei (Taiwan).
He lives and works in Bastia Umbra, Perugia.