Lino Bernabe Fernandez on Clubhouse

Bio

www.linobernabe.com

Lino Bernabe explores time and the effect of the moving picture through the medium of painting. Applying concepts ordinarily pertaining to the field of cinema, Bernabe’s paintings animate under RGB-sequenced lights. He uses colored light to divide one image into three. The sequencing of light produces an unfolding narrative, enabling the two-dimensional paintings to expand into the dimension of time. The motion of figures perceived from the change in colored light produces a narrative that questions the sociological and physiological implications of each primary color. Each color provides a different history that is excavated and molded into stories revealing the underlying melody of the universe. Filtered through the artist’s personal encounters, these symbolic narratives are transformed, twisted and imbued with his unfettered imagination.

Bernabe’s site-specific installations are designed to be displayed in rooms flooded with successive blue, green and red light, immersing the viewer in a four-dimensional narrative. His innovative technique applies the principles of light diffraction to painting using monochromatic color filtration to strip colors of their hue and filter them into value relationships. The works are not made with special fluorescent paint, rather a process that involves methodical tuning of regular paint allowing it to absorb or reflect equal portions of primary light.

A Cuban-American from Miami, FL, Bernabe studied at New World School of the Arts and The Cooper Union, and maintains a full-time studio practice in NY. He has been represented by The Chimney Gallery in Brooklyn NY.
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