Sergio Cerchi was born in Florece in 1957. He graduated from the Art Institute of Porta Romana and attended the courses of the Cherubini Conservatory (Florence). His training included from a young age contiguous experiences of music and visual arts: two inseparable passions, cultivated with tenacity and determination that led him to attend the workshops of some artists and playing in various musical groups. He started painting around 15 years, experiencing different techniques and approaches, to the maturing of his personal style. "Figures and geometries" make up his vision of reality, marked by a boost ethics that expresses not only artistic values, but philosophical,...
Sergio Cerchi was born in Florece in 1957. He graduated from the Art Institute of Porta Romana and attended the courses of the Cherubini Conservatory (Florence). His training included from a young age contiguous experiences of music and visual arts: two inseparable passions, cultivated with tenacity and determination that led him to attend the workshops of some artists and playing in various musical groups. He started painting around 15 years, experiencing different techniques and approaches, to the maturing of his personal style. "Figures and geometries" make up his vision of reality, marked by a boost ethics that expresses not only artistic values, but philosophical, historical and psychosocial. From the first works with landscapes and views, it has evolved into evocations "cubist" and reworkings of his own life, which have radically changed the 'material and coloristic facility. Subjects and backgrounds multiply in his painting as on a music pentagram, fading horizons planes and volumes, in which the figures and details emerge legible and compounds in an absolutely original way. Shades of oil paints with warm tones red carmine, mixed with ocher, green and blue to ancient sages with shades of light gray, they create sculptural elements, emblematic of materials and substances of the greatest masters of Primitive art from the Renaissance, which is precisely nourishes poetry and painting of Sergio Cerchi. Sergio Cerchi works in what could be called quadrant-ism, a unique style whereby the actual pictorial surface-rather than objects depicted-is fractured, multiplying and rendered with different lighting and coloring. Most of Cerchi's paintings are rendered in different shades of a dominant hue, though it may become bolder or softer depending on the movement and angle of the fragment it appears on. Thus, while aesthetic that marks references to popular culture and art history, their images are peeling, shifting and floating. By presenting us with characters in an object world that is never quite settled- or rather, constantly discovered in a process off resettlement- Cerchi explores the subtleties of time and color, of shading and layering. No shape is final, no perspective absolute, no color completely explored and exhausted. His iconic subjects, then, take on mysterious edges that completely faithful realism could never define. For every choice Cerchi makes, he reveals myriad possibilities.
