SERSE

b. 1952 in San Polo del Piave, Italy

Lives and works in Trieste, Italy

 

Serse was born in San Polo di Piave in 1952, and lives and works in Trieste. Having dismissed colour, he consistently researches graphite drawing. From Serse’s graphite sparks one of the most intense reinterpretations of the landscape-theme in contemporary art: seas, aquatic surfaces, plants reflections on the water, cloudy skies, high mountains, snowy forests and natural spaces lacking human figures and transformed by light and shadow. For Serse, as a medium, graphite “allows both making the tautological gesture of drawing, and realizing a work that does not lie about its nature of pure drawing”.

 

A selection of his most recent solo shows includes: "Bianchi e Neri" (Palazzo Ducale, Colorno, 2023); "Water Veils" (Modern Studio, Shanghai); “Serse” (Tan Guobin Museum, Changsha, 2017); “Aquí todo está abierto. Nada es cercano, nada es lejano” (Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Havana, 2017); “Paysage Analogue dessins 1994-2014”, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint Étienne, 2014); “Serse - Koh-i-noor” (Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rimini, 2012); “Geometriche dissolvenze” (Ex Pescheria, Trieste, 2010).