View the paintings by Italian Contemporary Artist Sergio Barletta

Born in Bologna, Italy, on November, 20th 1934, Sergio Barletta has been active in Rome since the early age of 22, where he worked as illustrator and art director in monthly magazines like: Costume, Diners Club house organ, BP Review, IBM, and others.

In 1965 he started his collaboration with the Marino Gallery in Rome and in 1966 he moved over to the Humour Graphic's group in Milan and later to the Levi Gallery and others.

In these years he worked on graphics and illustrations along with painting and photography, as also with satirical drawings for Rinascita, a weekly of the Italian communist party. He also did some work for Azione Sociale, a weekly of ACLI Catholic Workers Association, made movie posters, did advertisements for Gucci, carried out writings for Popular Photography Italiana and also lay-outs, writings and illustrations for Avinews, a bimonthly for tour operators, just to mention a few.

In the eighties he started a long co-operation with the satirical weekly "Il Sale", complemented by a book published in Milan by Ottaviano Edizioni. He also has to his credit satirical drawings published in Turin and Rome. In this period he collaborated with Linus, one of the most important Italian monthly publications of comics, and with Harakiri, a humour weekly published in France.

In brief he is essentially interested in all visual skills like painting, collage, ready-made, drawing, photography, etc.

The amalgam of different techniques allows him to express the meaning, the feel of these years, the significance of Maya, the illusion of senseless reality. In the last couple of years he has worked on hundreds of paintings having as subject the woman's body, its abuse in advertising, movies, beauty farms, Television and so on.

The title of this incessant course of works is "La poupée du capitaine", homage to the everlasting beauty and seduction of the woman.

He travelled many times for photographic work and writings to Japan, Malaysia, Madagascar, Singapore, Egypt and Turkey. He has had the opportunity to make several trips to India, photographing all the way, from Rajasthan to Tamil Nadu, from Ladakh to Madurai, especially Varanasi, where he spent a month, interacting with pilgrims on the ghats of Ganga and discovering the secrets of India, of devotion, of life and death together on the banks of this sacred river, hoping to attain Nirvana, and that's all.

Individual or Collective Exhibitions of paintings, drawings, collages at:

Galleria Levi - Milan, 1966M

Galleria Petronio - Bologna , 1967

Galleria d'arte moderna Villa Reale - Milan, 1967

Palazzo Costanzi - Trieste, 1967

Galleria del Naviglio - Milan, 1967

Galleria Marino - Rome, 1967

Galleria Libreria Renzo Cortina - Milan, 1968

Galleria Libreria Renzo Cortina - Milan, 1969

Society Art's Club - Messina , 1970

Galleria Marino - Rome, 1970

Galleria Libreria Renzo Cortina - Milan, 1972

Galleria Marino - Rome, 1972

Galleria il Diaframma - Milan, 1973

Galleria Libreria Renzo Cortina - Milan, 1974

Galleria il Ventaglio - Florence, 1975

Galleria Marino - Rome , 1975

Palazzo Gonfalonieri - Milan, 1976

Bedford House Gallery - London, 1977

Galleria Apicella - Bonn, 1979

Civico Museo Archeologico - Milan, 1980

Palazzo Barberini - Rome, 1981

Palazzo delle Stelline - Milan, 1981

Castello Sforzesco Biblioteca Trivulziana - Milan, 1982

Civico Museo Archeologico - Milan, 1983

Biblioteca Sormani - Milan, 1983

Club Migros - Milan, 1985

Centrodomus - Milan, 1985

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele - Milan, 1988

Galleria d'Arte ex libris - Rome, 1989

Civico Museo Archeologico - Milan, 1989

Palazzo delle Stelline - Milan, 1990

Palazzo d'Arte - triennale Milan, 1991

Galleria Molica Guid'Arte - Rome, 1991

Molica Galery, West Broadway - New York - N.Y., 1991

Civico Museo Archeologico - Milan, 1992

Palazzo Mediceo- Serravezza, 1994