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: