ABOUT ADELE CERBASI
Adele Cerbasi was born in 1977 in Naples, Italy. As a younger girl, she attended a traditional education in classical studies, and later she accomplished a diploma in Architecture. Despite this, Adele has always been drawing whilst attending different paths. As far as she remembers, she has always felt the need to draw and paint as an unaware passion, so much that nowadays all her childhood friends tell her they’ve always been sure of her creative fate, while Adele explains she was the last one to know this. Art happened in Adele’s life as an epiphany, something that has eventually always been there without been revealed. She bravely decided to start a new path and left her actual job in architecture four years ago, to commit all of her time to art. She began with watercolors for its functionality and applied to a painting class at Arteficio, an art school in Naples. Throughout the years she developed her style to become more recognizable but still, Adele declares to feel into a neverending creative cycle, for which she will never stop learning and acquiring new methods and techniques.
ABOUT HER WORK
But what is it that moved Adele to change her work and objectives, is something she told us with a genuinely passionate voice. Adele Cerbasi is an enthusiast with a joyful yet investigative personality, and this pushed her to build a fulltime passion, using art to explore more about life and human beings. In her paintings, Adele aims to tell stories. The peculiar detail she uses is not to start with an already definitive one, as she instead wants to surprise herself by what the painting will lead her to. In other words, to Adele painting is a journey, a tool to discover new perspectives while traveling, building a path she will create through every single stroke.
For instance, her painting MISTERIOSE DESTINAZIONI reveals a doubt, something unknown that waits to get disclosed as the final piece of a jigsaw. While the main character looks still, he also appears in the middle of a choice he is about to take. The frame will leave us suspended: “Where is he going? Is he running away from something?” In this painting, Adele leaves the viewer with the job to complete the story according to its own one. Adele strongly believes in the opportunity to interact with her audience, to deepen what she can infuse to the viewer, and take the cue directly from them. The core meaning of her art is to explore the considerations that moved her initially, to find out through the painting what she was looking for.
Colors are predominant to showoff a particular emotion. Her style is illustrative, and her stroke is dynamic and bold, to express the feelings on the canvas as more transparent as possible.
Adele is also a sports enthusiast and teaches athletics. Her specialty are 200 meters, which she practice to feel more centered, energetic and ready to paint.
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