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Serafino Maiorano created for the Hotel De Russie a collection of landscapes of contemporary Rome in an original symbiosis between painting and digital processing.
Architectural visionary, enigmatic compositions and conceptual depth wrap the atmosphere of an impalpable silence.
Maiorano is a representative of digital art. He draws from the social reality that surrounds him, as a witness of Roman daily life amidst the towering monuments and squares. Maiorano investigates urban reality with an emphasis on the thin line that separates the artificial world from the natural universe. The Architecture and The City become protagonists in a world where light shows the confusion of contemporary man in his metropolitan journey, through blinding and fluorescent paths.
Starting from photography, Maiorano deconstructs the horizons and overlaps different places. Digital manipulation and pictorial contributions with smooth and quick strokes make his work unique.
“In this sense, Maiorano’s linguistic code has a purity without deception, a measured slowness joined to his original style and tested practice, which places him among the contemporary European artists of a wider and breathless glance.” ( cit. Martina Cavallarin)
Serafino Maiorano
Was born in Crotone and graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro in 1983. Almost immediately after he moved to Rome. Maiorano has realized several solo and group exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. Among the latest, we can mention the participation at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. His personal Breath of Light in 2010 at the gallery Emmeotto of Rome, in 2009 the solo exhibition at Tornabuoni Art Gallery in Milan, and a solo exhibition in the Historic Apartments of the Royal Palace of Caserta, cured by Danilo Eccher and Martina Cavallarin.
Some of his works are in the collection of the Farnesina Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in some museums and several private collections. He exhibited at the Hotel de Russie in 2007 with an exhibition entitled Veiled Peace, in cooperation with the Traghetto Gallery of Venice. Some distinguished critics of art wrote about him, such as Dario Micacchi, Henry Crispolti, Barbara Tosi, Italo Mussa, Massimo Bignardi, Arnaldo Romani Brizzi, Tonino Sicoli, Olga Real, Fernando Miglietta, Miglietti Francesca Alfano, Franco Solmi, Ada Lombardi, Cecilia Casorati, Patrizia Ferri, Francesca Pietracci, Ludovico Pratesi, Gianluca Martians, Paul Aita, Martina Cavallarin, Danilo Eccher, Alan Jones.