SABATINO CERSOSIMO

Sabatino Cersosimo was born in 1974 in Turin, where he graduated in Decoration at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, after completing high school studies in graphic advertising techniques. His professional journey includes the restoration of books and paper materials, high school education, and educational museum tours. Since 2011, Cersosimo has lived in Berlin, where he began painting with oil colors on steel using oxidation process. From that point on, the concepts of time, will, and chance have become fundamental to the entire process of his artistic work.
Given the degenerative nature of oxidation, Cersosimo’s work creates a parallel with life itself: we are born, we grow, and we mature. Art has historically been considered eternal, but these paintings emphasize its metamorphic nature: we are witnessing an artwork that develops, layers, and in some cases transforms into other forms, much like the elements of nature on the planet.
His painted figures, which appear fragmented and evanescent, express emotions and dilemmas, reflecting constellations of humanity in small particles. They thus present many commonalities among human beings, beyond culture, language, gender, and race.
In his paintings, bodies blend with rust; certain elements appear missing, as in ancient frescoes, but unlike these, where time has erased parts, in Cersosimo’s works, what is incomplete was never present, in a context where illusion dialogues with the physicality of painting and metal. Between November 2023 and January 2024, Cersosimo exhibited at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin with the show "The Vanishing Bodies," a significant moment in the career of the Turin-born artist. Other exhibitions have been held in Germany, Italy, Spain, England, Belgium, and the Netherlands, and his works are collected in Europe, Russia, the USA, Australia, and Taiwan.