Carmelo Serrano fresco painter: 2011

viernes, 23 de septiembre de 2011

Nino Visconti di Gallura: a commission. Sardenia. August 2011.

"Era già l'ora che volge i disio ai navicanti..."

This is how the VIII song of the “Divine Comedy” begins. This is when Dante meets Nino Visconti. Forced to leave Pisa because the Ghibellinis coming into power, Nino took refuge at Tempio Pausania, in Gallura Sarda, where he lived until his dead.

Nino Visconti’s house at Tempio Pausania

Michele and felicita Tamponi have bought and restored the house wher Nino Visconti lived and the one behind it. The two of them are connected with a courtyard.

Michele e Felicita wanted a fresco painting reproduction of the front cover of Nino Visconti’s biography that Michele has written. It shows the protagonist the moment he’s forced to abandon Pisa.

Nino Visconti leaves Pisa.

He chosen space is the ceiling of the staircase that leads to the floor where the hall of the house is. This ceiling is practically a square (140x132cms.) therefore there was the need to adapt the picture trying to change as little as possible the spirit of the original.

Workers from Tempio had prepared, under our guidelines, the “arriccio” and the “intonaco”. Some weeks later after they had finished their work, we painted the fresco with the invaluable help of Merche Palacios (and Felicita).

The "sinopia"

Merche

“Artistic licences”: Instead of the tower of the model, we had been asked to paint the bell tower of Tempio cathedral, along with the rooster on top, which is the symbol of Gallura region, and the facade of Nino’s house among the buildings of the city.

Bell tower, the rooster, the house.

The signature

Our anphitryons.

Watercolors.

The watercolor paintings are part of the albums I paint as diaries or travel journals.

Flexible limit

Door

Steap tease

Fresco paintings.

Oil paintings and engravings (as well as fresco paintings due to technical characteristics, dimension and managability) are the object of a choice and constitute a more limited and selective choice (for better or worse) than those I make in my paintings books and watercolor albums.

Through the fresco paintings I aspire to create sets where one can move as if they could step in and live inside them.

The pictures intergrate, they live together without an apparent relation, they enrich each other.

"Because the entire truth is never in one and only dream. The entire truth is always in many dreams."

P.P.Pasolini, "One thousand and one nights".

My father is a Taurus, and Taurus is born early May. He has a decisive and stubburn caracther; he shares the force of invaders with the Vikings, that have horns on their helmets. To simplify, next to my mother's moral principles (who would represent "the matador", the control, the dominance of the intellect over the force of impulsion) he would be a barbarian that doesn't respect the rules of a more delicate and sophisticated, more rational but also more artificial society.

I'd like to paint (and to be) a matador, brave and fearless

I've inherited the horns of my taurus father but they are mostly two antennas

Mosquitoes

Seashell

I'm an Aquarius, son of a Taurus and a Scorpio

The egg is a symbol of the origin, of what produces new things, of the place where the gestation of the future takes place. With an egg on your head, moving or dancing becomes more complicated.

We dream bees and grow honey

Learning good manners

jueves, 22 de septiembre de 2011

Recent oil paintings

The oil paintings and the engravings are a matter of choice and constitute a more limited and careful choice (for better or worse) that what I do in my paintbooks.

The diver

Dream

Detail of the "Dream"

Spiral

Detail of the "Spiral"

On the pillar

My mother's name was Pilar. The pillar from which you can catch sight of a wider, clearer scenery but from the peak of which you distance yourself, you look from high up, you get isolated.