SERIAL PAINTINGS

PAINTING, SCIENCE AND FIBONACCI

 

Serial paintings are the result of pictorial, geometric and arithmetic rules based on the golden section and color combinations or permutations derived from the Fibonacci series. They belong to concrete art or constructed art, Konstructiv Kunst.
The canvas is scanned as a musical score from left to right and top to bottom.
The choice of three or four colors indicates the composition’s scale, each one being associated to one of the numbers of the series, a fundamental color, a third, a fifth and an eventual seventh color in the musical sense. During the painting, colors are superimposed showing color combinations.
After all these colors are placed, the rectangles which remain untouched are painted with a so called “resolution color”. This color is obtained by a mixture of the used colors also based on the Fibonacci series. Resolution color represents musical rest, silence.

Color permutations within the scale permit series of paintings exploring the same pattern. So is the series named “Seasonal variations”.

All paintings are oil on canvas and all the rectangular formats fall under the golden ratio or divine proportion and thus are homemade.

4 gold rectangles of the second kind of 4 colors, blue, green, yellow and red, are partly superimposed in a levogyral rotational movement with transparent colors for finer optical blend on a canvas of one square meter.

4 levogyral colours 2, 2013, 89×113 cm

4 gold rectangles of 4 colors, blue, green, yellow and red, are partially superimposed in a dextrogyral rotational movement with transparent colors for finer optical mixtures on a canvas of one square meter.

4 dextrogyral colours 2, 2013, 89×113 cm

Tribute to the Mozambican forest through rhythms of colors, green, Mozambican ochre, red and sky blue. All colors contain Mozambican laterite.

 Forest rhythms, 2008, 89×113 cm
Mozambican ochre

A painting in honor of Mozambique and the marrabenta, a typical music of the country. Drawn after the country's flag, the horizontal lines are extended in the left triangle to give the idea of a musical score. It is cut vertically in 10 for the 10 provinces of the country (without the capital). The colors used are those of the flag, red, black, yellow, green, all mixed with the ochre (laterite) of the central alley of the Garden of Memory, in memory of slavery, in Ilha de Mozambique. They are arranged rhythmically, every 3, 5, 8 and 13 squares. The squares that do not receive colors are painted with an off-white of earth, the 5th color of the flag.

Marrabenta, 2008, 79×127 cm
Mozambican ochre

Polyptich of 5 canvases of 120 strips of one centimeter wide, painted of 3 colors blue, yellow and red, arranged every 2, 3 and 5 strips in the first painting on the left, then, every 3, 5 and 8 in the 2nd one, every 5, 8 and 13 in the middle one, every 8, 13 and 21 in the 4th one and, every 21, 34 and 55 strips in the last one on the right.

Fibonacci’s DNA, 2009, 120×120 cm
Polyptych, 5x20x120 cm

120 vertical stripes of 20 centimeters high and one centimeter wide, red every 3 stripes, blue every 5 and yellow for all others.

Centimetrical yellow, 2007
20×120 cm

120 vertical stripes of 20 centimeters high and one centimeter wide in the colors of the flag of Mozambique, painted with an ochre of the country (laterite) mixed with all colors; red every 3 stripes, green every 5, black every 8 and yellow every 13, the stripes that did not receive colors are painted with an off-white of earth.

Centimetrical Moz, 2008, 20×120 cm
Mozambican ochre

120 vertical stripes of 20 cm high and 1 cm wide, red every 3 stripes, green every 5 and blue for all others.

Centimetrical blue, 2006, 20×120 cm

120 vertical stripes of 20 centimeters high and one centimeter wide, blue for every 3 stripes, yellow for every 5 and red for all others.

Centimetrical red, 2006, 20×120 cm

In homage to Paul Klee, a serial re-reading of his painting "Rhythmic (Rythmical)" drawn with the same geometry and painted with the colors, white, gray, black and blue, arranged according to the rhythm of numbers 3, 5, 8 and 13.

Paul K. 1, 2005, 83×65 cm

In homage to Paul Klee, a serial re-reading of his painting "New Harmony" drawn with the same geometry and painted with the colors, blue, red and yellow, arranged according to the numbers 2, 3 and 5.

Paul K. 2, 2005, 113×89 cm

Two red rectangles illuminate a winter night atmosphere of ultramarine blue, night blue and a "black" blue.

Winter scintillations, 2006, 100×100 cm

5 magical squares, 3x3, 5x5, 8x8, 13x13 and 21x21, numbered and painted according to the rules of serial painting.

Magical squares, 3×3, 5×5, 8×8, 13×13, 21×21, 2002, 191×606 cm

The 4 colors, blue, green, yellow and red, are arranged from the center outward in an anti-clockwise rotation.

4 levofugal colours, 2004, 89×113 cm

An artistic representation of the Big Bang, 7 paintings develop from a square through golden rectangles. The square is painted with 4 "colored" blacks, red, yellow, green and blue, then the colors are more and more present from one painting to another, symbolizing the appearance of life.

Big bang, 2002, 231×432 cm

Shades of black and gray bluish as slate.

Black serial square, 2000, 90,5×90,5 cm, sold

A summer day, sun and showers in the village of Splügen in the Swiss Alps.

Splügen, 2000, 127×79 cm

An impromptu fall variation with a sudden error of rhythm for the color yellow!

Autumnal impromptu, 2002, 70×89 cm

Painting from the "Seasonal Variation" series, all 4 constructed from Fibonacci numbers and painted in a different color order, "Winter Variation" is painted in green, blue, red and yellow.

Winter variation, 2000, 70×89 cm

4 golden rectangles of the second kind of 4 colors, red, yellow, green and blue are partially superimposed in a counter-clockwise rotation.

4 levogyre colours 1, 2000, 70×89 cm

4 golden rectangles of the second kind of 4 colors, blue, green, yellow and red are partly overlapping in a clockwise rotation.

4 dextrogyre colours 1, 2000, 70×89 cm

The four "Seasonal Variations" are the 1st paintings of the serial paintings based on the terms of the Fibonacci sequence, as a rule of concrete art, each painted with the same four colors in a different order. "Spring Variation", a painting from the series "The Four Seasons", is painted in blue, green, yellow and red.

Spring variation, 2000, 70×89 cm

The four "Seasonal Variations" are the first paintings of the serial paintings based on the terms of the Fibonacci sequence, as a rule of concrete art, each painted with the same four colors in a different order. "Summer Variation", a painting from the series "The Four Seasons", is painted in red, yellow, green and blue.

Summer variation, 2000, 70×89 cm, sold

The four "Seasonal Variations" are the first paintings of the serial paintings based on the terms of the Fibonacci sequence, as a rule of concrete art, each painted with the same four colors in a different order. "Autumn Variation", a painting from the series "The Four Seasons", is painted in yellow, red, blue and green.

Autumnal variation, 2000, 70×89 cm