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Serlian's aesthetic has been fundamentally influenced by artists such as Henri Matisse, David Hockney, Hernan Bas, and Enrique Martínez Celaya. The contemporary use of perspective, brushwork and the way of understanding painting without limits has led him to build his own aesthetic, where there always seems to be room for more definition; this effect of not being fully completed makes the viewer a participant, responsible for filling these sensory gaps.
Since the beginning of his artistic career, Serlian Barreto has allowed influences to penetrate his thoughts to the subtle point of knowing how to translate them with subtlety and his own style. And that is the path of the true artist: the one that is built knowing well the legacy of the great creators and discovering the unexplored areas to then write their own testimony of it.
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His family environment also led him to grow up surrounded by nature and therefore with great respect for it. His mother and grandfather were veterinarians by profession and since he was a child he raised all kinds of animals, which turned out to be his "toys". Serlian took care of guinea pigs, horses, snakes, birds, among many others, as well as cacti that have later been symbolic elements of representation in his work.
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selection of works placed in private and public collections
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My work is motivated by the reconstruction of animals, objects and organic forms. It speaks of a common thread that connects, in most cases, each one of the works that I create.
My work is focused, especially, around a deep love for painting. Painting is for me, a way of expression, my language and discourse. I build a personal universe in my work that results from my thoughts, aspirations, fantasies and also, of course, from direct dialogue with my circumstances.
I am greatly interested in the reconstruction of animals, objects and organic forms. These elements, in a symbolic way, establish a common thread that connects all my works in the same horizon, stimulating winks, associations and complicity between some pieces and others. I am very interested in the narrative sense of the work and its (metaphorical) correlations with life itself. For me, painting is a state of emotion, a state of consciousness, a way, if you will, of saying things. I like that the pictorial work, the pictorial material, in their full realization and expansion, speak for themselves: that they themselves be capable of narrating their story, of revealing the reasons —intellectual or emotional— that push them to exist as verifiable facts, as a tangible reality.
The theatrical and scenographic dimensions interest me profoundly. It is from that place that the work itself seems to be the “metaphoric illustration" of a tale, or reality itself, passed through the sieve of my subjectivity. Despite the substantial differences between one work and another, like in a dramaturgical text a close relationship is woven between all of them that speaks all the time of the landscape, of fiction, of the juxtaposition of elements —as in a collage— and of the inescapably human need to try to understand the contrasting and fascinating realities of this world, my world.
Serlian Barreto
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