The Floral Paintings of Fábio Cembranelli Reflect Top Ladies Adoration to the Sweetness in Love

The floral paintings of Fábio Cembranelli reflect top ladies’ adoration to the sweetness in love

While observing Fábio Cembranelli’s attempt of splashing a bunch of floral blossoms with watercolor paint, it is easy for us to recall the heart-beating lyrics of “Little Joke” (小玩意), a pop song by Cass Phang (彭羚) which describes her reminiscence on the happiest moment of her wedding experience. A fact has to be recognized that, the flowers, being portrayed by Fábio Cembranelli, are the most precious gifts that many top ladies from the 70s-born, 80s-born and 90s-born generations are so eager to receive from their beloved companions. In a current social atmosphere which the status of women is highly valued, Fábio Cembranelli has developed a feministic sort of visual language and corresponds with the aesthetic values of the top ladies who stress an uppermost realm of love pursuit.

Fábio Cembranelli can be regarded as a rarely-found male artist who fosters a sense of empathy towards the sentimental noumenon of widespread ladies, as well as dedicating his utmost courtesy to their serenity. To Fábio’s view, ladies are as tendered as many regiments of moisturized cotton, and he wants to apply such impression on his floral blossoms. Fábio also regards the lips of ladies as glamorous as the fireworks. It explains why he portrays the intrinsic petals near the buds to be as peachy as the lip polishes. The petals are a kind of metaphor to imply how the female lips catch men’s attention due to their lustrous appearance.

Fábio Cembranelli allows the peachy paint of the floral blossoms to infiltrate downward on the surfaces of the canvases. It reflects the optimistic color scheme that a Brazilian fine artist, who is affected by a mixture of Portuguese and South American cultures, uses to adore while he is expressing the bright substances based on their perceptual experiences of living in the dampened, forestry and well-cultivated regions. Fábio regards every creature as being nurtured by the warmth of Lord’s embracement, so as the flowers. Due to his appreciation on the “sanctifying grace” from our biological realm, he unveils the vitality of his floral regiments as fleshed as the cells and embryos. Some art lovers will even foster an illusion, which is, a pregnancy of infant lives from the flower buds due to the wriggling exteriors.

There is a famous Chinese poet, called “The Melody of Tranquility and Peace” (清平調), composed by Li Bo (李白) during the Tang Dynasty. A well-recited phrase from this poet presents how the male adores those ladies whose grooming are similar to Princess Yang’s – “Whenever I observed the cloud and flowers, I recalled her elegant dress and facial features. The breezes of spring flipped upon the lofty Revlon.” (雲想衣裳花想容，春風拂檻露華濃 ). The imaginative contexts from this phrase correspond with the floral blossoms of Fábio Cembranelli. Revlon is supposed as a kind of cosmetics, and Li Bo thought that it could be applied onto the surface of the pretty flowers. The surface of the petals will then present a dyeing effect, which greatly enhances the floral luminance. While you are starring at the random drips of rotten red liquid from the intrinsic petals, you would regard this as melted lipsticks that deliver fragrance to addict the charming men. Some wine professionals would think that, Fábio’s floral blossoms can be accompanied by a bottle of Château Margaux while a pair of couple is enjoying two pieces of steaks inside a candle- lightened environment during the Valentine’s Day.

In this society with infrastructural advancements as the major value of emphasis, lots of “youthful-minded” bourgeoisies would prefer a spiritual retreat from this utilitarian realm, reminisce the “Rococo-oriented” leisure adored by Voltaire and Jacques- François Blondel, and re-appreciate their established love relationships as similar as a cultivation of precious embroidery. Indeed, the floral blossoms of Fábio Cembranelli offer these bourgeoisies with a guiding code to rediscover the myths of classical romance. Fábio Cembranelli re-portrays the vivid ecology of our Nature by comprising the ornamental elements that please the females who pursues a Risorgimento of their prestigious status as Baroness and Dames.

Author: Vincent Lee Kwun-leung (李冠良) Artist Galerie Le Créateur

(Declaration of Interests: I am an Artist of the Galerie Le Créateur. I am authorized by Cressida Law, Curator of Galerie Le Créateur, to write an art review for Fábio Cembranelli’s creative concepts in his floral painting series.)