Dario Serra, Turin 1947. He paint from 1961.

Since 1974 he has been exploring Black using imprints, signs,
and actions not controlled by his own hand, in five techniques:

INK, ENGRAVING, BLACK ENAMEL, GRAPHITE DUST, LACQUER.

His painting extends to:
THEATRE
as creator and director of The Chamber Theatre of Marionettes;

to books:
BOOK WORK,
a library which contains a thousand drawing and engravings bound in seventy-one books;

to space:
LABYRINTH,
a combinatory installation made of painted polyptychs and other
interchangeable elements;

to sound:
OMPHALOS,
a drum;

to sculpture:
PERSONA,
a mask.

FIGURE
is the image which runs through his work.

He founded in Marrakech
SKOLE'
the school of Graphite Dust.

In 1988 e was nominated Knight of Arts and Letters by The French Republic.