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...

In the year 2014, I was awarded the Established Creators Incentive, a grant that is part of FONCA/ICG.   "For a year, I was in the process of creating an installation called:" SIMBIOSIS. "It was one of the last installations I carried out until this year 2020. The production of an exhibition that, as in this case, had elements of Augmented Reality, Temperature Sensors, Projections, and computing elements is quite complex. This is because various actors are required to monitor its development during the time of such an exhibition, and not many times there is the appropriate technical staff. The final presentation of this project went smoothly, and I thank all the staff of the Instituto de Cultura de Guanajuato as well as the Museo Olga Costa for all the invaluable support they offered me to achieve this exhibition." "Objective: To present a multimedia installation that inspires reflection on our impact and influence as a species and as a...

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...