BIOGRAPHY
Sergio Battarola, born in Bariano ( Bergamo, Italy) in 1955 and graduated from Brera Academy, came to the attention of the public and critics in 1989, with an exhibition of drawings presented by Giovanni Testori at the Compagnia del Disegno in Milan. Since then, he has been continuously present on the national and international exhibition scene with personal and collective exhibitions in the most important Italian and foreign cities. He collaborates on the creation of backdrops and set designers with the Elfo Puccini theaters in Milan and Caverna in Bergamo.
In 2009 he was the protagonist of the feature-length film “Il Figlio di Amleto” directed by Francesco Gatti; the movie had its premiere at the Locarno international festival and then travelled to other important festivals, enjoying considerable success with the public and critics. The artist has repeatedly combined his work to texts by writers and poets, in particular: Beppe Fenoglio, Françoise Villon, Charles Baudelaire.
Battarola lives and works in Bariano, where he was born and where he feels inserted into an ideal fabric for his expressive needs, far from the large urban centers to which he does not feel he belongs.