Karam Sebastiano Cannarella’s pictorial narrative as he travels to Moroccan soil captures the charm of such an ancient culture, both in his intimate gesture of representing the landscape and in his spontaneous depiction of characters, mirrors of everyday history.
The greatness of a skilful hand succeeds, through shapes and colours, traces and signs, drawings and subjects, in describing Morocco as if it were almost using a dancing realism, fascinated by colours and costumes, elaborates a new theme. Each work requires careful study, continuous personal research and in the exploration of this new theme lies the refinement of an artist with a skilful hand that is able to unveil the subject portrayed to enchant and amaze the viewer who, with extreme enchantment, lingers to observe each work. Thanks to a skilful hand, his creations come to life on canvas in the exchange of emotions through which the painter empathises with the subject, be it person or monument. In his works, the memories of a peasant world are translated into images and ‘his women from the north of the country’ with their typical costumes are born, ‘the water seller’, that fragrant, spicy, singular water; ‘his dancers’, ‘the men on horses’ taking part in that well-known festival called ‘Fantasia’, the landscapes with their local atmospheres, come to life. Through the figurative art of Karam Sebastiano Cannarella, he transcends reality and penetrates emotion, expressing the character, the sweetness, the harshness, the drama of the subject portrayed; he captures its aura and translates its intensity, its vivacity, its shadowiness.
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Oil on canvas
70×50 cm – 1998
