Serse Roma Biography
Serse Roma (1952) is an artist from Trieste who focuses exclusively on graphite drawing on paper. Over the years, he has produced a considerable series of images that have earned him inclusion in the volume “Vitamin D, New Perspectives in Drawing” published by Phaidon Press (2006), and a chapter in Lorand Hegyi's new essay, “Drawing in the Age of uncertainty”, published by Silvana (2021), as well as participation in highly important international exhibitions.
His work is characterized by a coherence and recognisability that makes it unique in the current national panorama.
The subjects drawn in graphite portray a solitary nature: seas, cloudy skies, snow-capped peaks and forests, reeds, water reflections. A sublime dimension of the earth, the non-human one, whose transformations take place on a time scale that is not the anthropological one.
The reference to the mineral condition of graphite translates into the "Diamonds" series, whose perfect and unalterable shape refers to the crystallographic origin of the primary forms of geometry and construction.
Serse Roma has presented his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, including: "Fogli d'acqua" at the Galleria Continua in Rome in 2020, "Water Veils" at the Modern Studio in Shanghai in 2019, "Inner Remoteness , Vision beyond the horizon" at the Tan Guobin Museum in Changsha, China in 2017, and "As far the eyes can see" at the Galleria Continua in Beijing in 2016. Among the group exhibitions in which he participated are "Por siempre una y otra vez" at the Galleria Continua in Havana, Cuba in 2020, "Intriguing Uncertainties" curated by Lorand Hegyi at the Parkview Museum in Beijing in 2019, and "Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain" at the Center Pompidou in Paris in 2013.
