Insects

Insects  is an original Hand-colored etching on paper realized by  Sergio Barletta .

Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil, numbered in Roman numerals, edition of XXX/XXX prints.

Titled in Italian at the top  "Cervo Volante".

The state of preservation is good.

Barletta (1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator, who has also published some humorous and political satire books.

 From the age of 22 is active in Rome, where he worked as an illustrator and art director in some monthly magazines like “Costume”, Diners Club house organ, BP Review, IBM, and others. In 1965 started the joint-working with Marino Gallery in Rome, and in 1966 in Milan with Humour Graphic’s group, at Levi Gallery and others in the following years.

In these years graphic work and illustration are mixed with painting and photography, also with satirical drawings for Rinascita, weekly of the Italian communist party; Azione Sociale, weekly of ACLI Catholic Workers Association; movie posters, advertising for Gucci, some writings for Popular Photography Italiana, lay-outs, writings and illustrations for Avinews, bimonthly for tour operators and so on.

During the eighties he starts a long co-operation with satirical weekly “Il Sale”, complemented by a book with Ottaviano edizioni in Milan and others publications in Turin and Rome, all of satirical drawings. In this period he collaborates with Linus, the most important Italian comics monthly, and Harakiri, a humour weekly published in France.

Personal and group exhibitions of paintings, collages, drawings, photographs

Galleria Marino – Roma, 1965

Galleria Levi – Milano, 1966 Galleria Petronio – Bologna, 1967
Galleria d’arte moderna Villa Reale – Milano, 1967
Palazzo Costanzi – Trieste, 1967
Galleria del Naviglio – Milano, 1967
Galleria Marino – Roma, 1967
Galleria Libreria Renzo Cortina – Milano, 1968
Galleria Libreria Renzo Cortina – Milano, 1969
Society Art’s Club – Messina, 1970
Galleria Marino – Roma, 1970
Galleria Libreria Renzo Cortina – Milano, 1972
Galleria Marino – Roma, 1972
Galleria Il Diaframma – Milano, 1973
Galleria Libreria Renzo Cortina – Milano, 1974
Galleria Il Ventaglio – Firenze, 1975
Galleria Marino – Roma, 1975

Palazzo Gonfalonieri – Milano, 1976

Bedford House Gallery – London, 1977

Galleria Apicella – Bonn, 1979

Civico Museo Archeologico – Milano, 1980

Palazzo Barberini – Roma, 1981

Palazzo delle Stelline – Milano, 1981

Castello Sforzesco Biblioteca Trivulziana – Milano, 1982

Civico Museo Archeologico – Milano, 1983

Biblioteca Sormani – Milano, 1983

Club Migros – Milano, 1985

Centrodomus – Milano, 1985

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele – Milano, 1988

Galleria d’Arte ex libris – Roma, 1989

Civico Museo Archeologico – Milano, 1989

Palazzo delle Stelline – Milano, 1990

Palazzo d’Arte – triennale Milano, 1991

Galleria Molica Guid’Arte – Roma, 1991

Molica Gallery, West Broadway – New York, 1991

Civico Museo Archeologico – Milano, 1992

Palazzo Mediceo – Serravezza, 1994

Lalit Kala Akademi – New Delhi, 2005

Birla Academy of Art and Culture – Calcutta, 2005

Galleria Marino – Roma, 2011