Carmelo Blandino
Tubingen, Germany / Montreal Quebec
Illustrator, Painter
"Urban Baroque"
Since 2005, the paintings of Carmelo Blandino have derived an as yet inexhaustible wealth of visual splendour and emotional resonance from flowers. He has rigorously refined an approach one might call “urban baroque”, carefully combining to maximum effect the sublime subtleties of classical oil painting with the crackling energy of contemporary spray-paint-and–stencils street styles.
“My work is a sort of continuance in the practice of Buddhist monks,” Blandino explains, “who would bring a single flower to their meditation session and ask the students there to stare at it in silence for a long period of time. Eventually the student comes to realize that he is gazing upon his own true form, a higher Self within the form of the flower, and the flower and its identification properties disappear. Recognizing that all matter originates from one source, a sudden awareness is brought forward that elevates the mind to a more enlightened state. The student and the flower are one.”
- About the Artist, From his official website.
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