The universe of his imagination appears to be flourishing, fertile and the essence of Karam Sebastiano Cannarella’s painting is measured by a continuous sensitive will to reinterpret faces that belong to the history of all times. Following the example of the masterpieces of the art of the greatest masters, as diverse as Caravaggio, Botticelli, Warhol and Van Gogh, he decodes the articulate and well-circumscribed classical language, which makes the stroke of the hand always attentive and original in its uniqueness. The greatness of a skilful hand that succeeds in never being intrusive accompanies him in revisiting the works of the great Masters of the past, with the intention of celebrating the ideal of classical beauty in a contemporary key, making two different styles dialogue with each other. Unmistakable for his original technical-executive imprint, he expresses in his works the lively freshness of a new epoch that grapples with an illustrious past, reviving it. In carrying out these revisiting operations, it is as if he were bringing something eternal and unchanging but distant in time back to life. The works are skilfully revisited with a contemporary sensibility and through a careful eye for composition, details, rhythms, formal and chromatic balances he is able to bring to the surface images that speak and that in the strong chiaroscuro contrast find their full meaning. The technique encapsulates a work of great precision and at the same time of great emotional impact. The canvases are composed with the bodies of the actors and the aid of everyday objects; nothing is left to chance, just as nothing is superfluous The end result immortalises the work through well-studied cuts of light, in a variegated motion and movement of colours and linens that create a dynamic and vortex that translates the conception into a contemporary key. Each work represents a unique journey back in time, delving into the work, highlighting its details by dwelling on the stroke of light, the expression and the cut of scene taken out of context.
“The lady with the fan – J. Vermeer””
Oil on canvas
100×100 cm. – 2015
