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 clarify what I mean when I say that who observes a painting by Melchiorre Gerbino determines it
This painting on canvas (mixed technique, 50 cm x 40 cm) is titled "Oddities between mother and daughter".
Evidently, 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 let imagine a canal or a marsh.
Who hung this unusual painting on a wall, and from time to time looks at it, at some point notes that, between the mother and the daughter,
there is a strange figure, the kind that sometimes the rovers photograph 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 noted 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 end to give explanations on my paintings by giving an explanation on this one
This work (mixed technique, cm 55 x 70) is titled "Alien worlds. Planet of androgynous beings. Execution of a criminal".
In this detail, is evident the erection and ejaculation of the condemned in the supreme moment of death.
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More attention requires to observe the volutes of the secretions of the vagina (arrow) specifically the part that seems to condense in a chair
where the executioner sits.
In detail, the head of the executioner and a kaleidoscope of pyramids.
Detail of the laser weapon with which execution and dismemberment of the condemned are performed.
In the sky, an UFO.
At this point, one could believe to have noticed all the elements that make up the painting, but then another observer notes that there are
also 3 dogs in the painting
Evidently, this is a dog.
Here another dog, whose muzzle adheres to the vagina, from which are delivered more secretions.
A third dog howls towards the UFO.
Being a world of androgynous aliens, of which it is arduous to imagine the living conditions, even less the conditions post mortem, it is
impossible for the one who noted the 3 dogs to determine whether the 3 dogs were at their master when he was executed, or if he has
reincarnated in 3 dogs.
Then another observer finds out that there is a bird that pecks and lacerates the navel of the executed subject.
And yet another finds out that there is also a being of Mephistophelian appearance.
Nor the observation of the painting comes now to an end, because one can glimpse one more figure here. And who knows how many other details
other observers could discover in this painting.
Thus, the perception of this emblematic painting becomes so subjective that any explanation of it, including mine, becomes questionable.
What in the painting is unquestionable is the erection and ejaculation of the criminal.
And with 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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All works are on canvas, painted with mixed technique. To see them in their right proportions
Click on them
"Moonlight" (cm 16 x 39 - € 800)
"Birds of prey with the head of a woman"
"African woman" (cm 12 x 30 - € 800)
(cm 15 x 45 - € 800)
"En route" (cm 24 x cm 40 - € 1.000)
"Great North" (cm 32 x cm 43 - € 1.200)
"Animism. Souls wandering in the Night" (cm 52 x cm 43 - € 1.500)
"Gallery of Memories" (cm 50 x cm 40 - € 1.500)
"When in the dream one reaches other worlds" (cm 55 x cm 50 - € 1.700)
"Pianist" (cm 42 x cm 51 - € 1.500)
"The many mysteries of a full moon night" (cm 52 x cm 63 - € 2.000)
"Dr Alice Adams among the gorillas" (cm 50 x cm 75 - € 2.000)
"Mercenary" (cm 55 x cm 69 - € 2.000)
"Exodus" (cm 55 x cm 69 - € 2.000)
"Nostalgia" (cm 43 x cm 45 - € 1.600)
"Fishing" (cm 43 x cm 51 - € 1.600)
"Archangel Michael resting" (cm 56 x cm 70 - € 2.000)
"Nobel laureate Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame reincarnated in a bicephalous leech" (cm 64 x cm 53 - € 2.000)
All the works are on canvas not mounted on frame. They were painted on the island of Cebu, Philippines, the year 2017. They are signed and
dated in the back.
To contact me: melchiorre.gerbino (at) yahoo.com
