Enzo Carnebianca

Lorenzo Carnebianca was born in Rome in 1948. From 1966 he worked in the field of Theatrical Scenography, where he developed techniques of his own. Carnebianca's style can be described as an intriguing surrealism, with characteristic chromatic contrasts in turquoise and ochre. His figures, both in sculpture and painting, express an intimate mythology, with Beings welling up from the unconscious: anthropo-serpents, spirals, figures with the third eye and heads on Atlantean proportions. His demi-godlike Beings recall the time that was and the time to come, in the illuminated space drenched in turquoise sunlight. His sculptures, paintings, drawings, fountains and set designs are to be found in prestigious public and private collections, both in Europe and throughout the world.

IL PERCORSO ARTISTICO

Carnebianca started out on his career as an artist in the 1960s at Camillo Parravicini's Studio di Scenografia Teatrale , and in the cinema at the Dino De Laurentiis Studios. Carnebianca's style can be described as an intriguing surrealism, with his highly characteristic chromatic contrasts in turquoise and ochre. Both in sculpture and painting, Carnebianca's figures express an intimate mythology involving a race of Beings that well up out of the unconscious: anthropo-serpents, spirals, figures with the third eye and heads shaped on Atlantean proportions. His demi- godlike Beings recall the time that was or the time to come, in a space drenched in turquoise sunlight. Bringing to fruition a style of painting with powerful expressive and emotional content, especially apparent in the interiors, the nudes and in the surrealistic landscapes of Rome. A many sided artist who, at the end of the 1960s, devoted his manifold talents to sculpture, producing works in wood, stone, ceramic, and the somewhat disturbing bronze figures which remain among his most original creations.

The origins of this fantastic world of Carnebianca can be traced through the teeming memories of vanished civilizations.

In his dynamic gestual approach Carnebianca comes close to Dalì and Max Ernst, as well as to the adventurous tone scale of Magritte, while some of the others types of composition are reminiscent of the expressive free form of Henry Moore.

Carnebianca is considered the most coherent and talented exponent in the fantastic-surrealist line which began, in Italy, with Alberto Savinio but obviously bears many motivated links with European surrealism, particularly the hyper-figurative version of Dalì. As a cultivated artist with profound knowledge of western visionary and esoteric culture dating back to its mannerist and baroque matrices, and gifted with exceptional preparation in technique and perspective, Carnebianca has produced unforgettable works that by now have entered into the collective imagination, such as " Cosmic Spirals", the magical "views" of "Deterioration of the Janiculum" and "Twilight of the West". He is also famous for his work as illustrator and set designer.

His technique of laying paints à plat over broad contrasting surfaces, reveals continuity with fauvism and post-expressionism.

Together with Carnebianca's drive to revive and emotionally expand the data of the phenomena of reality through painting, even where Carnebianca handles a mystic subject, his reading of the surrealist world remains consciously united with an intimate and lyrical vision of humanity.