The painting by Sergio Zagallo, subtly echoing Informal art, originates from different stimuli, always moving the heart and the mind.

You step into a world where you can catch a glimpse of everything: figures, landscapes, horizons, flowing waters, the evanescence of roads in the heat, bird's eye glints, enchanted deserts, volcanoes.

Dream and reality become intertwined when the mind is free from convention and finally surrenders to the evocative power of the image.
Colors - sometimes corroding the canvas with wounds and juxtaposed scratches - gradually dissolve and thin down, vibrating with intensity to the point of getting overlaid by other filaments, all making the visible image oneiric or phenomenal. The interpretation of the surrounding world is misty, soft, but at the same time full of temperament and incisiveness. Determination is one of the qualities that allow to understand the artist's own path.

These paintings of matter fuel his art with a deep sense of freedom.

The artist himself tells of a sensuality for color nourished by a strong connection to nature that is re-discovered every single day. This is how this series of artworks came into being, also taking different formats - rectangular, round - in time: but they are not in the least experimental, they are fully attained, thoroughly ripened and meditated.

So much that the artist senses that a period of time (though enthralling) is over, and thus he shifts his focus to a next phase that he reaches easily and spontaneously, connecting with the plasticity of matter, the three-dimensionality of the stroke, the accomplishment of the formal processing.

Gabriella Niero