Mirabasso - Verso est

TECHNIQUE AND UNIQUENESS OF THE WORK:
Each painting by Carlo Mirabasso, painter since 1975,
is entirely handmade, excluding the use of prints,
reproductions or other photomechanical techniques.
The artist starts from a white, tactile support (canvas or panel),
then draws the composition in pencil, allowing the work to evolve naturally.
Subsequently, through the skillful use of the brush,
Mirabasso creates textures, glazes and depth
using acrylic and very fine oil colors.
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: 16 x 22 cm
Technique: oil and acrylic on MDF panel.
Painting base prepared with a textured priming.
Surface of the work protected with a final transparent and glossy varnish.
One-of-a-kind piece signed by hand on the front and back.
Certificate of Authenticity.
Work Framed: No.
It will be carefully packed and shipped with a tracking number.

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In the Umbria region, cradle of the pre-Renaissance era,
notable for those early realistic sparks
that sprang from nature and from those empirical forms
of spatial representation, lives Carlo Mirabasso.
A humble yet thoughtful artist who, intelligently,
mates a way of painting that is at times geometric and rhythmic
with that primordial expressive immediacy of 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 14th-century altarpieces, between studies of a pre-Cubist lineage
and landscape verticalities, completes itself in his painting techniques,
almost marble-like; charged with a subtle material symbolism
with a mural meaning in which the fresco technique reappears and,
in that tranquility of places dear to De Chirico,
where space and time halt in the image of the frame,
Mirabasso returns 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, in addition to painting,
he worked in the field of advertising graphics and illustration,
collaborating with numerous advertising agencies and publishing houses.
At the early 1990s he began painting his first
metaphysical compositions, perfecting a personal technique
on panel 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 showcases 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.