Karam Sebastiano Cannarella is a ‘painter-poet of sensations’ and because of this magic he transforms reality into symbols, in search of the meaning of infinity. Representing sign language, the artist proffers an ‘infinity’, restoring a rational and perceptible form that allows us to grasp the optics of whatever exists beyond reality.
In his ‘pictorial texts’, he uses what could be described as a personal ‘visual alphabet’, in which the protagonist is undoubtedly the sign. Inspired by the Arab-Muslim civilisation, he stages letter-signs highlighted by the arrangement of forms, intricate traces and imaginary indices while maintaining the quintessence of their dynamic composition and their undeniable intercultural dimension. The artist thus creates his own expressive language from which emerges a profound knowledge of the same, with which he demonstrates his ability to alternate and exchange the sense of the relationship between form and colour, thanks to his personal and free creativity. For the artist, the canvas becomes a space to be constructed, he selects the chromaticisms, the infinite forms transforming his research into matter, sign and memory, to be stopped, for an instant, with the pictorial gesture, to then return to vibrate in the space of the painting drawing that vortex of signs and colour that urge our gaze to enter ‘his painting’, which allows us to capture a universal message, a sequence of emotions and perceptions. Here appears in his works a sign – letter, pure energy that imprints itself and emerges on the entire pictorial surface through the skilful choice of colour, a strong evoker that creates different spatial planes in infinite and mutable variants, until it completely invades space and overcomes its two-dimensionality.
“Untitled”
Acrylic on canvas
150×150 cm. 2005
