Sergio Sarri

Constructed from the persistent representation of human - sometimes animal - figures reduced to specimen objects by active pernicious machines, "Sergio Sarri, Machines d’analyse: Dessins sur papier (1971-2000)" catalyzes the pervasiveness of industrial violence on working bodies in Sarri's figurative research. Exploring the interstice of human relationships to machines - or rather, machines to humans - the exhibition brings together works on paper by an artist who has worked primarily on canvas, through the predominant themes of his practice: symbolic compositions evoking an inverted production dichotomy, from which beings are now at the service of robotic authorities.

Sarri first studied painting in Bern, Switzerland, and then in Paris in the late 1950s, but it was during his first visit to the United States in 1965 that the subject of his paintings shifted to explore the links between humanity and technology, which have remained the dominant themes of his career. In 2022, the Fitzpatrick Gallery dedicated its first retrospective exhibition to him, Sergio Sarri, Paintings and Works on Paper: 1971 - 2021.