Paolo Serra - folder with 10 screen prints at Paolo Serra - Sold

Paolo Serra was born in Morciano di Romagna in 1946. As the son of a shoe designer who worked from a small shop in the center of Rimini, Serra's skill in craftsmanship is innate. In 1955, Serra moved with his parents to Northampton in England, where he lived for twenty-seven years.
Serra attributes his burgeoning artistic career to a primary school teacher who nurtured his appreciation for Italian art, particularly that of the Trecento. This led to a desire to visit museums and galleries, with two exhibitions making a special impression on him: Picasso at the London Tate Gallery in 1960 and Art Alive, an exhibition of European contemporary art held in Northampton the following year.
In 1962, when Serra was not yet 16, the Century Gallery in Northampton held his first solo exhibition, which was received with praise in an extensive review by The Guardian newspaper. In the years that followed, he won a number of grants from the Arts Council of Great Britain, which also purchased one of his works. After contributing to various group exhibitions following his first solo exhibition, he set aside painting to focus on unconventional materials such as plexiglas, with which he produced assemblages and artifacts that he called 'constructions'. Around 1969, he became deeply interested once again in the painting of the Old Masters, an interest he diligently cultivated through frequent visits to the National Gallery in London. From that moment on, partly as a result of his discovery of Cennino Cennini's Fundamental Treatise,