Carlo Mirabasso - L'altro desiderio

Original Painting by Carlo Mirabasso
Dimensions: 22 x 16 cm
Technique: oil and acrylic on board / MDF panel.
Primed painting surface prepared with textural gesso.
Surface of the work protected with a final transparent and glossy varnish.
Unique piece hand-signed on the front and back.
Certificate of Authenticity.
Work without a frame.
Will be carefully packaged and shipped with tracking number.

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Website: www.carlomirabasso.it

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In the Umbrian region, cradle of the prerenaissance 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,
combines a method of painting with geometric and rhythmic touches
with that expressive primordiality of the volumes of the medieval world,
perhaps a prototype of all modern art to follow.
A "delicate harmony" that in his panel paintings,
like threeteenth-century altarpieces, between studies of pre-cubist matrix
and landscape verticalities, is completed 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 quietness 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 sensation.

Text by Andrea Galante

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BIOGRAPHY
Carlo Mirabasso was born in Tivoli in 1959.
In 1979 he graduated from Liceo Artistico Ripetta in Rome.
Between the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to painting,
he worked in 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, refining a personal painting technique
on board that will become fundamental for his research,
charting a path that will establish him as a professional artist. In 1996 he 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.

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TECHNIQUE and UNIQUENESS OF THE WORK:
Each painting by Carlo Mirabasso, a painter since 1975,
is entirely handmade, excluding the use of prints,
reproductions or other photomechanical techniques.
The artist starts from a white and textural support (canvas or board),
then sketches the image composition in pencil,
letting the work evolve naturally.
Subsequently, through the skilled use of the brush,
Mirabasso creates textures, glazes and depth
using acrylic and extra-fine oil colors.
Once finished, the work is protected with a transparent and highly glossy varnish,
which, in addition to protecting it from external agents,
adds luminosity and brilliance to the painting.
Each work is a unique piece and non-reproducible.

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