Mirabasso - Una fresca mattinata

TECHNIQUE and UNIQUENESS OF THE WORK:
Each painting by Carlo Mirabasso, painter since 1975,
is entirely handmade, excluding the use of prints,
duplicates or other photomechanical techniques.
The artist starts from a white, tactile support (canvas or panel),
then traces the composition of the image in pencil,
letting the work evolve naturally.
Subsequently, through the skilled use of the brush,
Mirabasso creates textures, glazes, and depth
using acrylics and ultra-fine oil colors.
Once finished, the artwork is protected with a
transparent and high-quality glossy varnish,
which not only protects it from external agents,
but also gives the painting luminosity and brilliance.
Each work is a unique, unrepeatable piece.

DESCRIPTION:
Dimensions: 22 x 16 cm
Technique: oil and acrylic on MDF panel.
Ground prepared with a textured underlayer.
Surface of the work protected with a final transparent and glossy varnish.
Unique piece hand-signed on the front and back.
Certificate of Authenticity.
Unframed work.
It will be carefully packaged and shipped with a tracking number.

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In the Umbrian region, cradle of the pre-Renaissance era,
important for those early realistic sparks
that sprang from nature and from those empirical forms
of spatial representation, lives Carlo Mirabasso.
A humble yet reflective artist who, intelligently,
pairs a way of painting that is sometimes geometric and rhythmic
with that expressively primordial sense of volumes from the medieval world,
perhaps the embryo of all modern art to come.
A “delicate harmony” that in his works on panel,
similar to 14th-century altar pictures, between studies of pre-Cubist matrix
and landscape verticalities, comes to completion in his painting techniques,
almost marble-like; charged with a subtle material symbolism
with a mural meaning in which the fresco technique re-emerges, and
in that tranquility of places, dear to De Chirico,
where space and time stop in the image of the frame,
Mirabasso brings to the surface memories of metaphysical perception.

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.
During 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 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 left advertising graphics
and devoted himself exclusively to painting.
He has participated in numerous exhibitions and has shown 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.