Carlo Mirabasso - L'altra contea

Original painting by Carlo Mirabasso
Dimensions: cm 22 x 16
Technique: oil and acrylic on board / MDF panel.
Ground 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 frame.
Will be carefully packed and shipped with tracking number.

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In the Umbrian region, the hearth of the pre-Renaissance era,
important for those first realistic glimmers
that arose from nature and from those empirical forms
of spatial representation, lives Carlo Mirabasso.
A humble yet thoughtful artist who, intelligently,
binds a painting method with geometric and rhythmic touches
to that expressive primordiality of the world’s medieval volumes,
perhaps the embryo of all modern art to follow.
A “delicate harmony” that in his on-board works,
like the thirteenth-century altarpieces, between studies of pre-Cubist matrix
and vertical landscape-inspired forms, is completed in his painting techniques,
almost marble-like; charged with a subtle material symbolism
with mural meaning in which the fresco technique resurfaces, and,
in that tranquility of places, dear to De Chirico,
where space and time halt in the image of a frame,
Mirabasso brings 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 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, refining a personal painting technique
on board that would become fundamental to his research,
laying out a path that would lead him to establish himself
as a professional artist. Since 1996 he left advertising graphics
to devote himself exclusively to painting.
He has participated in numerous exhibitions, and his works have been shown
in Rome, Milan, Florence, Bari, Teramo, Potenza, Padua,
Auckland (New Zealand), Marbella (Spain), Taipei (Taiwan).
Lives and works in Bastia Umbra, Perugia.