The “painting-photography fusion” is a theme developed by Karam artist Sebastiano Cannarella, who demonstrates the different ways in which photography can be applied to pictorial compositions. He undertakes a personal research centred on the relationship between photography and painting, a path of sharing and opening between two different realities.
The questioning of the relationship between photography and painting is the thread that binds Cannarella’s pictorial works together. Painting and photography, which for years have ‘clashed’ in an attempt to make their respective qualities stand out, in the work undertaken by the artist touch each other by overlapping, beyond the painting and before the photograph, or before the painting and beyond the photograph. He approaches the process of composing a work as if he were a filmmaker: he develops the theme by highlighting a possible creative coexistence between painting and photography, highlighting the relationship between the two ‘artistic devices’ and the possible transformations in art.