Sergio Sarri (1938) - Temps

Biography of Sergio Sarri
Sergio Sarri was born in Turin in 1938.
The beginning of his artistic activity dates from the early 1960s. His research is predominantly focused on the man–machine relationship, a theme sharpened after a trip to the United States in 1965.
In 1974, with a fellowship and residency from the Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam, he worked for two years at the Cité des Arts in Paris.
He receives numerous recognitions including: Suzzara Prize (1967), Bollate Prize (1967), Ramazzotti Prize (1967), Campigna Prize (1973), Sulmona Prize (1991). Over the years he participates in the most important international exhibitions: from the Salon of Young Painting in Paris to the Venice Biennale to the Quadriennale in Rome. […]
In his works, deformity emerges with lucid awareness, like in a mirror that reflects a deformed reality; it is his observation, detached, without the pretension of explaining or claiming to give motivations; a realistic vision free of rhetoric. […]
He dedicates himself at length to painting and advertising illustration before turning to comics in 1984, when, under the pseudonym SeSar, he begins to publish in Corto Maltese very particular stories in which he reinterprets myths and characters of 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 embarked on a new path in the world of comics, that is, the possibility of using without complex cinematic situations in a game that multiplies the possibilities of fiction and narration". In 1995 he produced for the publishing house Lo Scarabeo the original Tarocchi del cinema (Tarots of the cinema).