Sergio Sarri

BIOGRAPHY

Sergio Sarri Biography

Italian, b. 1938

Sergio Sarri was born in Turin in 1938, lives and works in Calice Ligure. At the end of the 50s, Sarri traveled to Europe following painting courses in Bern and Paris. After traveling to the United States in 1965, his research on the man-machine relationship began, which would be the theme that would characterize all his work. Passionate about comics, at the end of the 80s he began to publish comic stories in the magazines "Corto Maltese" and in international magazines such as "Heavy Metal" and "Comic Art", signing himself as SeSar. From 1994 to 1997 Sarri was professor of artistic anatomy at the Brera Academy in Milan.

Main exhibitions

1960-1970
Galleria Il Punto, Turin (1968), personal; Musée Municipal of Saint Paul de Vence (1968) personal; "Current Alternative 3", the Eagle (1968); Palazzo Reale, Milan (1972); XXXVI International Art Biennale of Venice in the Graphic Section and in the Venice pavilion (1972); Galleria Vinciana, Milan (1969, 1972, 1973), personal; Galleria Centro, Turin (1974); Galerie-T, Amsterdam (1974), personal; Hagener Kunst Kabinet, Hagen (1975), personal; Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara (1976), personal.

1980-1990
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (1980); Villa Manzoni, Lecco (1981); Art 12, Basel (1981); Pop-Art and Italy , Pavia (1983); Galerie G. Fall, Paris (1984.1986), personal; Galleria Gastaldelli, Milan (1982,1985,1988), personal; Galleria Margherita, Rome (1984, 1987), personal; XI Rome Quadriennale (1986); Galleria Nuova Gissi, Turin (1994), personal; Galleria San Michele, Brescia (1994), personal; Montserrat Gallery, New York (1996,1998), personal; Barchessa Villa Serena, Ponzano Veneto (1997), personal; Galleria Vinciana, Milan (1998), personal.

2000-2016
Univerisitat de Valencia, Valencia (2003), personal; Exhibition Area of ​​Castelfranco Veneto (2003), personal; Museum MAGI '900, Pieve di Cento (2003), Galleria Vinciana, Milan (2004), personal; Art Museum of Splendor, Giulianova (2006), personal; Galleria Annunciata, Milan (2007, 2014), personal; Art and Art Gallery, Bologna (2008), personal; "Tribute to De Chirico" Cà d'Oro Gallery, Rome (2008), Miami and New York (2010); 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Italy Pavilion, Milan (2011); Arte Fiera Bologna (2016).
 
Main prizes and awards
Premio Suzzara (1967), Premio Bollate (1967), Premio Ramazzotti (1967), Premio Campigna (1973), Premio San Marino (1978), Premio Roncaglia (1988), Premio Sulmona (1991), Premio Busto A. (2001) ;
 
Museums and public collections

Italy
Graphics Cabinet of the Museum of Modern Art of Bologna - Museum of Contemporary Art of Varese - Gallery of Modern Art of Sulmona - Ramazzotti Collection, Milan - Gallery of Modern Art of Gallarate - Pinacoteca Comunale of Sesto Calende - Suzzara Award Gallery (MN) - BNL Collection, Rome - Municipal Municipal Collection, Salò - Museum of Alto Mantovano - Accademia di Brera drawings collection, Milan - MAGI '900, Pieve di Cento - MAS Splendor Art Museum, Giulianova (TE) - Contemporary Art Gallery "Vero Stoppioni", Santa Sofia (FC) - Busto Arsizio Award Museum (VA).

France
Musée Municipal de Saint Paul de Vence, Musée d'Art Moderne de Grenoble

Germany
VAF Foundation, Frankfurt with MART of Trento and Rovereto

Holland
Grafic Stedelick Museum, Amsterdam,

Spain
Fundaciòn J. Guerricabeitia, Universidad de Valencia