Sunday 29 November 2015

The sequential art of Serena Perrone

What instantly drew me to perrone's work is the use of the bold red over a monochrome setting.





Her work is like a storyboard installation, each tile revealing a new narrative in the sequence which pans across the whole room , you walk and read her story of images. 

They are beautifully painted, the combining of drawing painting and printing is visually impressive, the bold contrast of colour goes beautifully together, surprisingly. 

It was interesting to find out in this interview; 


That she includes bits and pieces from her own life experiences. Adding a whole new depth , a personal one, we aren't just looking at a sequence of images showing a narrative. We are looking at images that reflect her own autobiographical narrative which is a whole new depth. 
When asked what her interests are she said;

"I’m most often looking inward towards memories, narratives, and fragmentary recollections I wish to expound upon.  I use my work as a way to synthesize and digest a lot of what I experience in order to create something physical and real.  My work often involves serial imagery and a loose narrative – I tend to think of my work as a vast endeavor, wherein each piece is just a means of communicating one small aspect of an overall image. The larger picture or idea is something that is elusive and always changing, so my work is a constant pursuit, excavation, and examination of that fleeting and intangible thing."

Here, Perrone describes how her work as 'fragmentary reccollections' which exposes to me how dreamlike her works are. Some are quite abstractly placed for example a chair outside under a fallen down tree, like they are drawn straight from a narrative of a dream, the bold colour scheme intensifies this mystical, fantasy element. 


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