Abatos in Karnak or God Laughs is a mixedmedia painting on canvas performed with multiple mediums. Click on the video above to watch the entire creative process by Alberto Ballocca.
Entrance to the temple of the ancient Egyptian deity “Amun” accompanies the observer from the center of this canvas to the rest of the composition and vice versa.
Alberto Ballocca evokes an ancient divine presence through a particularly accurate and instictive usage of different mediums such as natural pigments for the background, acrylics, house paints, sprays and charcoal, together with an anatomical decomposition study of a pharaonic face.
The “Great Temple of Amun” in Thebes (Karnak Temple) is a largest Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of Nile, in the modern city of Luxor.
On the forehead of the subject, instead of the classic Uraeus, the artist painted a clock, which identifies the spiritual time exchange between the artist and the creative process.
This painting accompanies the observer throughout a timeless place and identifies the idea of entrance.