Opere Corano Acrilico su Legno - Karam Cannarella

KORAN

With the intention of bringing together two profoundly different cultures, to the point of influencing the forma mentis, the artist embarks on a metaphorical journey from the West to the East. Relating to art, which is represented in its true global aspect, he stages 1.300 plates, each measuring 67×96 cm, depicting the Holy Qur’anic Text. It appears in its majesty an entirely original work, a unicum.
 
Imagining that one is leafing through an enormous book, one can read the entire page of the Qur’an, which the artist transcribes in Arabic with extreme precision using a paintbrush, highlighting the verse depicted with different colours compared to the text inside. He manifests the personal feeling perceived in the creative act by applying different colours to the background of each panel, indicating the number of the reference page of the Qur’an and the number of the verse from which the pictorial representation is inspired, in order to make the message more usable. An established Master, he presents a fascinating figuration of complex forms, emphasised by perspectives, backgrounds, cuts, figurative elements that float in an atmosphere full of suggestions, urged on by great emotional strength and imagination. Mysteriously, it announces the Message as the pivotal element that is transformed into chromatic lyricism, pregnant with hidden meanings, where the divine and the richness of graphic invention are linked by a tension that flows into the enchantment in which the unknown miraculously reveals itself and in which it is possible to identify the becoming of man.
 
 
Opere Corano Acrilico su Legno - Karam Cannarella

Page 532 – Verse 24
Acrylic on wood
97×65 cm. – 1993

Establishing a dialogue between abstract expressionism and surrealism charged with emotional force from the imagination of a figurative reality, of a metaphysical world, the artist stages his personal artistic dimension, striving for a grammar that allows the dogmatic power of images to communicate the power of the Koranic letter. Through a pictorial language of skilful visual communication, endowed with tones, juxtapositions and contrasts, symbols and forms, the artist, with a modern spirit and full of culture, enacts the ideational moment in the translation through images of the inner emotion perceived by the sound of the divine Word that is transformed into chromatic lyricism, pregnant with hidden meanings. He articulates with total mastery the interpretation of the Word in pictorial images in which the composition is supported by an intimate connection to the subject matter, poetically transfigured into chromatic syntheses by his pictorial gesture from which much of his poetic sensitivity transpires.
He produces his abstract-geometric art in pictographic signs, animated by an intense inner energy, which transforms them into informal biomorphic entities; all in a work of omnia, conceived as a single compact and homogenous whole, striving, and with success, to achieve a perfect coincidence of structure and form, of signifier and signified, where each of the two terms appears inseparable from the other.

Autorizzazioni opere sul Corano

By establishing a dialogue between abstract expressionism and surrealism loaded with emotional force coming from the imagination of a figurative reality, a metaphysical world, the artist stages the personal artistic dimension, tense in search of a grammar that allows you to communicate with the dogmatic power of images, the power of the Koranic letter. Through a pictorial language of wise visual communication, equipped with tones, combinations and contrasts, symbols and forms, the artist with a modern spirit and culture puts into action the creative moment in the translation by images the inner emotion perceived by the sound of the divine Word that is transformed into chromatic lyric, full of hidden meanings. He articulates with total mastery the interpretation of the Word in pictorial images in which the composition is supported by an intimate link to the theme of the subject, poetically transfigured in chromatic synthesis by his pictorial gesture from which much of his poetic sensitivity shines.
He produces his abstract-geometric art in pictographic signs, animated by an intense inner energy, which transforms them into informal biomorphic entities; all in an omnia work, conceived as a whole compact and homogeneous, striving, and successfully, make it a perfect coincidence between structure and form, of signifier and meaning, where each of the two terms appears inseparable from the other.

Karam Cannarella