LUIGI SERAFINI 
Una casa ontologica

21.3 – 25.8.2024
Macro – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome

Luigi Serafini (Rome, 1949) is an artist, architect, author and designer whose research has always developed outside the more conventional art contexts.
Una casa ontologica is conceived as an expanded work, a space in which Serafini has created a meta-portrait that transports his imaginative attitude into the museum through the reworking of the interiors of his Roman house. Made like an enormous three-dimensional Codex Seraphinianus and suspended between an oneiric set design in an undecipherable language and a work of geometric, cataloguing architecture, the artist’s home bears witness to almost 40 years of life and work, evidence that now runs the risk of vanishing due to eviction.  
The Codex is his best-known editorial work, containing over 1000 drawings made from 1976 to 1978 and published in 1981 by Franco Maria Ricci Editore: a visual encyclopaedia where every object or image reproduces or imagines an item of zoological, mechanical, botanical, mineralogical, technological and alien knowledge, in constant metamorphosis.   
The exhibition brings together a selection of Serafini’s eclectic output, ranging from sculpture to the design of everyday objects, freehand drawing to photography, publications to the invention of languages. 

Curator: Luca Lo Pinto 
Curatorial Coordinator: Matteo Binci 
Production Coordinator: Marco Lo Giudice 
Production Assistant: Giulia Corti 
Head of Press Office and Communication: Maddalena Bonicelli
Digital Content Editor: Nicoletta Graziano
Social Media Manager: Elena Fortunati
Web Manager / Digital Marketing: Andrea Pergola
Graphic Designer: Marco Campardo, Olivia Lynk
Art Handlers:  Fabio Pennacchia, Matteo Pompili 

Heartfelt thank you to Fabio Cherstich.