René Serrano Rodriguez Blog

Pre-Zen-Tea A  Real Estate painting commission of 10 pieces in May 2023. Video Process in the bottom of the post.  Inspired from the music of "Sleep " album based around the neuroscience of sleep by German-British composer Max Richter. It was released on September 4, 2015 Painting commission: 10 pieces  Colors: Grey, White, Red and Gold. Dancer: Ana Contreras.  Key Words: Brief = Proposal: a- Home - Gathering / Travel = Station b- Station = Living room = Loading... C- Quality Time. consequence: Present (Right here, Right Now) Time as a sacred ritual Ritual, Ceremony, Zen. Tea ceremony. Past, Present, Future. (100 X 70 cms each) X 3 Mixed media / Canvas Midnight Encounter 120 X 60 cms  Mixed media / Canvas Gathering 250 X 150 cms Mixed media / Canvas Day time Encounter 160 X 70 cms  Mixed media / Canvas Midnight Poem 120 X 80 cms  Mixed media / Canvas VIDEO PROCESS: 

Detail of "El Transas" The Fall of the Rebel Angels *PB20220831 Mixed media / Canvas 150 X 150 cms 2022.  SOLD This painting is inspired in the painting of 1562 by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The subject represents the classical combat between the angels and demons in the medieval painting subjects. On the left side of this composition we find a disgusting, abominable and anonymous being. This monster (Inspired from a relative) represents the the wickedness of men, their criminal and evil side, the money fraudsters, criminals... Detail of "El Transas" In the right side contains the portraits of Virginia Woolf, Marie Curie, Nina Simone, Frida Kahlo and a goat that i have named "Djali" in a Victor Hugo Homage.   This portraits share a new body from the works of Pieter Brueghel, and Luis Ricardo Falero. The Papyrus text is part of the ancient Saint Benedict Medal (1647) This religious object is also a Christian symbol...

Punk Baroque *PBLTG0721 (The Three Graces) 250X150cms mix/canvas. 2021 SOLD I was raised in a religious tradition, then a fascination for the ancient religious iconography was so obvious. Since young, far from being interested in the Sunday liturgy mass, my gaze was focused on those painful madonnas of  European origins, the Mexican baroque, its exaggeration in the images, the omnipresent figure of the Virgin of  Guadalupe but also the rituals from the indigenous traditions. Later I lived and studied in central Europe for 5 years. I was so obsessed with the Medieval cathedrals, the art of “Fin de siècle,“ the icons and the ancient jewelry but also the  popular culture, the mix from the different cultures, races and different music styles in those cosmopolitan cities. At first glance it may seem opposite but if we see this mix of processes with the eyes of dialectic maybe we can find a  kind of a synthesis, maybe a mix between Pink Floyd,  J. S. Bach with Cumbias...

Dance in the forest series is a Painting work commissioned by a  Real Estate and a parallel experimentation in my own studio. (VIDEO PROCESS IN THE BOTTOM) This building is located near the forest so the inspiration for this artwork became obvious… I started to think about a dance in the forest with butterflies, trees, flowers… So i decided to ask my ballerinas friends to work with me in this commission. Based on the Scene "A Pine Forest" from The Nutcracker ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1892 My painting work has been inspired by time, textures, music and calligraphy, for this time i decided to work with human skins. This was not the first time… This is an old technique that began in 1958 and now I add my own recipe… When the surface area is ready with the skin textures I start my personal signature recipe with a calligraphy process as a new dialogue with the printed forms. This new layer is covered with a painting work inspired by the textures, forms, time, skin an...