Melchiorre Gerbino is a professional painter since 1969.
He has worked in various cities (Stockholm, Milan, Düsserdolf, Copenhagen, Oslo, New York, Caracas, Quito, Nairobi, Abidjan, Tokyo, his hometown Calatafimi...) He has held exhibitions in some of these cities and in others that are not mentioned here. In Stockholm he managed galleries where he exhibited and sold exclusively his paintings and those by Gunilla Unger. In Nairobi, where he taught the technique of engraving and painting on glass, he managed a gallery where he sold his paintings exclusively. In Tokyo and in Oslo, he sold his paintings on the street.
He never wanted to participate in the business of art galleries managed by others, thanks to this, he has been able to travel uninterruptedly, for long years, across the globe and reach remote places, as Easter Island and Tarawa Atoll. Consequently, his production has been quite chaotic, but he believes that after his death, the merchants, with whom he did not want to collaborate in life, will look for his paintings, if not for some other reason, because he led the youth revolt in Italy in the Sixties, which contributed to make history in Italy, France and worldwide.
As a painter, Melchiorre Gerbino uses an impressionistic technique to realize a surrealistic dimension. Due to this technique, his paintings are determined by those who observe them.
Melchiorre Gerbino
I want to explain what I mean when I say that the one who observes a painting by Melchiorre Gerbino determines it
This painting (cm 50 x cm 40) is titled "Oddities between mother and daughter". Clearly, the mother is represented by the figure on the left, the daughter by the one on the right.
Here, it's not hard to notice a boat
Even here you could see a boat.
The reflexes of this part of the painting suggest there is a canal or a swamp.
The one who has hung this unusual painting on a wall, and looks at it from time to time, suddenly notices that between mother and daughter there is a strange figure, the kind sometimes photographed by rovers on Mars.
At this point the painting, which had previously been perceived in a way, inevitably will be perceived in another. And if some other element will be noticed by the observer, no matter if because of his ability to observe or because of his imagination, then the painting will be perceived differently once more.
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I want to give more explanations on my paintings by giving an explanation on this one
This work (cm 55 x cm 70) is titled "Alien worlds. A planet of androgynous beings. Execution of a criminal".
In this detail the erection and ejaculation of the condemned in the supreme moment of death is evident.
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More attention requires observing the volutes of secretions from the vagina (arrow), that part that seems to condense in a chair where the executioner is seated.
In detail, the head of the executioner and a kaleidoscope of pyramids.
Detail of the laser weapon with which the execution and dismemberment of the condemned one is carried out.
In the sky, a UFO.
At this point, you may think that you have noticed all the details who make up the painting, but then someone might notice that there are also 3 dogs in the painting.
Evidently, this is a dog.
Here is another dog, whose muzzle adheres to the vagina, from which other secretions are emitted.
And a third dog howls at the UFO.
Being a world of androgynous aliens, of which it is difficult to imagine the living conditions, even less the post mortem conditions, it is impossible to determine if the 3 dogs were with their master during his execution, or if the executed has reincarnated in 3 dogs.
And then another observer discovers that there is a bird that pecks and tears off the navel of the executed subject.
Nor can we say that there is nothing more to discover in this painting, as other details may be noticed by other observers.
Thus, the perception of this emblematic painting becomes so subjective that any explanation of it, including mine, becomes questionable. What is indisputable in the painting is the erection and ejaculation of the criminal.
And by this I think I have given enough clarifications on what I mean when I assert that who observes a painting by Melchiorre Gerbino determines it.
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Made in the Philippines, in Cebu Island, in the year 2017, all these works are on canvas, painted with mixed technique.
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"Moonlight" (cm 16 x 39 )
"Birds of prey eating the head of a woman" (cm 15 x 45)
"African woman" (cm 12 x 30)
"Nostalgia" (cm 24 x cm 40 )
"Great North" (cm 32 x cm 43)
"Souls wandering in the Night" (cm 52 x cm 43)
"Gallery of Memories" (cm 50 x cm 40)
"When in the dream you reach other worlds" (cm 55 x cm 50)
"Pianist" (cm 42 x cm 51)
"The many mysteries of a full moon night" (cm 52 x cm 63)
"Doctor Alice Adams among the gorillas" (cm 50 x cm 75)
"Mercenary" (cm 55 x cm 69)
"Exodus" (cm 55 x cm 69)
"Nobel laureate Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame reincarnated in a bicephalous leech" (cm 64 x cm 53)
"Archangel Michael resting" (cm 56 x cm 70)
