SHAPES IN SPACE AND TIME
Geometries of iron, wood, bronze and lightness

Exhibition at the Barbaresco Tower from 7 July 2023

Paolo Serrau, an artist of Sardinian origin and Piedmontese by choice, resides in Bene Vagienna (CN), where he has his studio, studying first at the Art High School of Cuneo and then at the Academy of Turin and Carrara, where he completed his artistic training, graduating in Sculpture. Since 1981 he has taught at the Albertina Academy in Turin (from 2014 he will become deputy director).

It is starting from the 80s that a careful knowledge aimed at experimentation and research of different materials and their use appears evident in his work: from marble to bronze, to cooked clay, to iron, to wood, to plaster, up to to fused glass, synthetic plastic materials, assemblages and polymaterials.

Also in those years, his personal way of interpreting form manifested itself with a confident and energetic expressionistic charge. The same dramatic sense of his figurations brings together exquisitely “essential” intensity and pathos.

Serrau is an artist who creates with his hands. He creates with the concreteness of the material that he himself procures, models, forges and manipulates.

In his sculpture works, in particular, to conceive the fullness of his forms it is necessary to maintain an acute sense of the void that outlines him and vice versa, to conceive the void, or rather an extraordinary sense of space and time around his sculptures, it is necessary to grasp how full of enchanting traces of other “intense” silences from other areas of the world.”