In his paintings René writes with a Self-created calligraphy over textures, forms, or portraits to talk us about time, music and challenges in life.

René serrano. creates works which highlight those wonders of daily life that go unnoticed; the moments that shape our trajectories but are so minute, they are often times overlooked.

His works revolve around ideas about banal events, and he views daily life challenges as an altar for meditation and fascination. This fascination translates to pure logical forms like a circles as backdrops or layers to his calligraphy forms. Maybe a kind of Glossolalia.

As the music composer Wim Mertens said: “A language in the instruments that will not distinguish between the content, the meaning, the words, and sounds”.

The harmonious compositions are a tribute to the passage of time in a person’s life, a life that is shaped by Challenges, interactions, occurrences, and encounters that color our realities and affects our decision making.

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The Punk Baroque series...

I have usually preferred to behave in an abstract and expressionist manufacture, integrating a personal calligraphy, perhaps a type of glossolalia, seeking an integration of textures as a basis to represent time.

Actually After a year living in a Catholic seminary, i was “suggested” to leave the ecclesiastical career.

In this series i started to use a figurative technique as a first layer surface in the canvas.

Why?

I have a fascination for the ancient religious iconography, the Mexican baroque and its exaggeration in the images.

Since young, far from being interested in the sunday liturgy mass, my gaze was focused on those painful madonnas of European origins and in the omnipresent figure of the Virgin of Guadalupe made by one of the first talented indigenous artists trained in the colony; Marcos Cipac de Aquino.

At the end of my "recommended" exit from a religious seminary period my knowledge of music and literature had broadened.
Back in my city, the first museum that i visit by my own decision was the colonial museum of a Morelia.

In this new experimentation I start to incorporate, as a support, some illustration, kind of an “academic” type of drawing with subject inspired from different periods of the art history mixed with contemporary themes, mainly other artists.

Once this “first layer” is finished, mainly made of graphite, i use it as a "surface" of the canvas to return to my original abstract and calligraphic technique.

I consider this final phase as the most important and the main part of the work.

The fact of scratching the canvas with spray paint and other materials over a surface made with a technique that requires a longer time of work; gives it its importance.

This calligraphy on these almost religious images could represent a kind of sand Tibetan Buddhist mandala tradition (Del-Tson-Kyl-Khor) Mixed with The Pre-Columbian, African, European influence.

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