Eric Serafini

Serafini's painting is a kind of X-ray machine, which does not see the inside of objects but frames their history. As if (and this is probably how it is) everything is transformed while retaining in the soul - deep down - the spirit of ancient times, and Serafini manages, with his soft, fluid marks, to wrest these precious secrets from things. He is interested in credible reproduction - realistic and pseudo-photographic - but soon turns it into a dreamlike vision, made absurd and fantastic by the sepia toning and solarisation of certain parts of the painting. He likes the antique, parchment-like patina, but he soon erases it by puncturing it with minimal surfaces of bright, phosphorescent colours, which seem to consume and burn it from the background.

He participated to the 8th Premio Cairo, in 2007.