Sergio Sarri (1938) - Temps

Biography of Sergio Sarri
Sergio Sarri was born in Turin in 1938.
The start of his artistic career dates back to the early 1960s. The research is primarily focused on the man-machine relationship, a theme that came into focus after a trip to the United States in 1965.
In 1974, with a scholarship and residency from the Modern Art Museum of Amsterdam, he/she worked for two years at the Cité des Arts in Paris.
He receives numerous awards including: Suzzara Prize (1967), Bollate Prize (1967), Ramazzotti Prize (1967), Campigna Prize (1973), Sulmona Prize (1991). Over the years, he has appeared at the most important international exhibitions: from the Salon of Young Painting in Paris to the Venice Biennale to the Rome Quadriennale. […]
In the works, the deformity emerges with lucid awareness, as in a mirror that reflects, however, a distorted reality; it is, for him, a detached observation, without the pretension to explain, without seeking to offer reasons; it is a realistic vision free of rhetoric. […]
He dedicates himself for a long time to painting and advertising illustration before turning to comics in 1984, when, under the pseudonym SeSar, he begins publishing in Corto Maltese stories that are quite distinctive, in which he reinterprets myths and characters from American cinema from the 1930s to the 1950s: from Rita Hayworth to Errol Flynn, from Humphrey Bogart to King Kong. Having reached the so-called 'drawn literature' rather late, this author, as Vincenzo Mollica wrote, has the merit of "having taken a new path in the universe of comics, namely the ability to use, without complex cinematic situations, a game that multiplies the possibilities of fiction and narration." In 1995 he produced for the publishing house Lo Scarabeo the original Cinema Tarot deck.