René Serrano Rodriguez Blog

Medicine woman *DJ20261102 Pencil / Canvas 120 X 80 cm (47 X 31 In) 2026 BUY this painting  at SAATCHI Gallery Medicine Woman *DJ20241030   106 X 81 cm (42 X 32 inches) Mixed media / Canvas 2024   Artwork acquired by The Mexican Tax Administration Service MX Catalog: 0007_2024 MN The Medicine Woman painting series begins with a personal fascination with the face of my friend Alejandra, a gifted artist and photographer from my hometown of Morelia, Mexico .  Part of the  Hypothetical Icons   Series, this series blends elements of street art with surrealism , Art Nouveau , portraiture, and figurative imagery . Each portrait is rendered in sepia tones , while hypothetical icons embedded in the compositions evoke both real and imagined memories. Situated between biography and mass-produced imagery, the project examines how the figure of “the subject” is constructed and how identity is mediated through memory, repetition, and visual language. A medicine woman...

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...