Mirabasso - Oltre la collina

TECHNIQUE and UNIQUENESS OF THE WORK:
Each painting by Carlo Mirabasso, painter since 1975,
is made 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 image composition with pencil,
allowing the work to evolve naturally.
Subsequently, through the mindful use of the brush,
Mirabasso creates textures, glazes and depth
using acrylic and ultra-fine oil colors.
Once finished, the work is protected with a transparent, glossy varnish
of the highest quality,
which, in addition to protecting it from external agents,
bestows luminosity and brilliance on the painting.
Each work is a unique and unrepeatable piece.

DESCRIPTION:
Dimensions: 22 x 16 cm
Technique: oil and acrylic on MDF panel.
Pictorial base prepared with a textural priming.
Surface of the work protected with a final transparent and glossy varnish.
Unique piece hand-signed on front and back.
Certificate of Authenticity.
Work without a frame.
It will be carefully packed and shipped with tracking number.

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In the Umbrian region, cradle of the pre-Renaissance era,
important for those early realistic sparks
that arose from nature and from those empirical forms
of spatial representation, lives Carlo Mirabasso.
A humble yet reflective artist who, intelligently,
approaches painting in a way that is at times geometric and rhythmic
to that primal expressive immediacy of the volumes of the medieval world,
perhaps the embryo of all modern art to follow.
A "delicate harmony" that in his works on panel,
like the three-century altarpieces, between studies of pre-Cubist matrix
and verticality of landscapes, completes itself in his painting techniques,
almost marble-like; charged with a subtle material symbolism
with a mural meaning in which the fresco technique resurfaces and,
in that tranquility of places dear to De Chirico,
where space and time stop in the frame’s image,
Mirabasso brings surface sensations of metaphysical memory to light.

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, in addition to painting,
he worked in the field of advertising graphics and illustration,
collaborating with numerous advertising agencies and publishing houses.
At the beginning of the 1990s he began painting his first
metaphysical compositions, perfecting a personal on-board painting technique
that would become fundamental for his research,
tracing a path that would lead him to establish himself
as a professional artist. Since 1996 he has left advertising graphics
and devoted himself exclusively to painting.
He has participated in numerous exhibitions and exhibits 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.