Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness,
which unites your body to your thoughts. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
All spiritual traditions recognize the mystical implications of the breath. Breath is Life. When breathing ceases, there is no life as we know it.
by Claudia Moscovici -Art Critic
"How do you translate profound religious questions and experiences for our times? When Western art used to be predominantly representational, and images looked like the objects the artists painted or sculpted, religious feelings and narratives took an iconic form. What comes to mind are the beautiful icons and Biblical stories that come to life in almost every European church. But since the twentieth century art has become conceptual. Images no longer look like real objects or tell events in the same literal fashion; they only suggest feelings and impressions in innovative ways. That's what the art of Roman Serra does in a moving and original fashion. On first glance, his paintings look like another universe; an oceanic world which is vastly different from our own. But these colorful, sometimes amorphic images and palpable textures come from the depth of his thoughts and feelings about very human, even universal, questions: theosophical subjects like theodicy, or why innocent human beings must suffer in a God-created world; grace, the meaning of human life itself. They are impressions of color and shape left by his human experience and, sometimes, by his very breath. Roman Serra's art is a breathtaking experiment in how conceptual art can capture our deepest questions and emotions." Claudia Moscovici, co-founder of the art movement postromanticism.com and art critic (see Romanticism and Postromanticism, Lexington Books, 2007)
which unites your body to your thoughts. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
All spiritual traditions recognize the mystical implications of the breath. Breath is Life. When breathing ceases, there is no life as we know it.
by Claudia Moscovici -Art Critic
"How do you translate profound religious questions and experiences for our times? When Western art used to be predominantly representational, and images looked like the objects the artists painted or sculpted, religious feelings and narratives took an iconic form. What comes to mind are the beautiful icons and Biblical stories that come to life in almost every European church. But since the twentieth century art has become conceptual. Images no longer look like real objects or tell events in the same literal fashion; they only suggest feelings and impressions in innovative ways. That's what the art of Roman Serra does in a moving and original fashion. On first glance, his paintings look like another universe; an oceanic world which is vastly different from our own. But these colorful, sometimes amorphic images and palpable textures come from the depth of his thoughts and feelings about very human, even universal, questions: theosophical subjects like theodicy, or why innocent human beings must suffer in a God-created world; grace, the meaning of human life itself. They are impressions of color and shape left by his human experience and, sometimes, by his very breath. Roman Serra's art is a breathtaking experiment in how conceptual art can capture our deepest questions and emotions." Claudia Moscovici, co-founder of the art movement postromanticism.com and art critic (see Romanticism and Postromanticism, Lexington Books, 2007)
