Sergio Rapetti
Master Sergio Rapetti
Prof. Dr. Honorary Degree – Ph.D in Art and Philosophy of the modern search (Academy S.S.)
Artist: Painter oil on canvas, Sculptor, also a bit Poet and Philosopher...
CURRICULUM updated April 2025
I am Sergio Rapetti a Italian artist, Painter, Sculptor, also a bit Poet and Philosopher, born on 27- 4- 1944 in Acqui (AL), “precisely, my birth took place in the Griglia Region of the Municipality of Visone, where my parents Small Farmers lived, I result born in Acqui because in the period between 1929 and 1948 the Municipality of Visone was abolished and its territory merged with the Municipality of Acqui which then became Acqui Terme in 1956”.
I have more than 55 years of work both as an employee and as a professional artist in specific artistic activity “900309” as a painter, sculptor and writer from the 1999 to 2019; in 2014 I resulted about among 5.500 Italian Artists, Painters, Sculptors or in both disciplines born from the beginning of 1900.
Self-taught
I have began my artistic works of oil painting on canvas in 1984, my paintings, whether with thick paint or not, are made exclusively on canvas with oil paint without the addition of other substances and with the same paint they are always signed with the date of the year in the lower right corner and on the back.
My painting works mainly range between the figurative and the recognizable impressionistic abstract.
An important thing, the works are painted in direct form X-ray proof without any previous tracings with pencil or other. Since the nineties I have also begun to dedicate myself to wood sculpture, my works are carved on a single piece of wood with gouges and hammer and can also be requested individually in bronze or marble and in the desired size; I also write poetries and published monographic and philosophical books.
Some works of paintings and sculptures have connected the important philosophical meaning.
I have participated in multiple exhibitions, personal, art fairs and biennials, on the page the most important events are linked with the date of the months and year that took place:
Exhibition at the Gamondio Gallery in Castellazzo Bormida (AL), 9- 1992 - Show exposure economic activities of the Acqui Terme, 11-2001 - Personal exhibitions at the Regional Enoteca of Palace Robellini Acqui Terme, 7- 1999 4- 2000 4- 2001 10- 2004 12- 2007 - To the Grand Hotel Nuove Terme in Acqui Terme, -11-12- 2000 - To the Cultural Center La Società of the Municipality of Ponzone, 7- 2002 - At the Gallery of Art Carlo Carrà Guasco Palace, seat of the Culture Department of the Province of Alessandria, 2- 2003 - 1st International Biennial Art Museum of Chianciano Terme, 9- 2009 - International Exhibition with the Gallery Art Italy Villa Gualino Torino, 4- 2010 - At the Chelsea Fine Arts Gallery Bldg Rogue Space with the Gallery Immagine Spazio Arte of Cremona, 2010 - Forlì contemporary fair 14th edition with the Alba Modern Art Gallery, Forlì, 11- 2010 - Exhibition at Four Season Hotel in Tokyo Prize, 5- 2011 - Exhibition at the Argò Gallery in Athens in the Tokyo Prize, 5-6- 2011 - Exhibition in the LA MAMA Gallery in New York with the Image Gallery Spazio Arte of Cremona, 8- 2011 - Dakar Art Festival, Senegal, 8-9- 2011 - Exhibition Sanremo Art Gallery in the prestigious Room of the Theatre Ariston of Sanremo, 9-10- 2011 - Exhibition of contemporary thematic art, the Weapon, Art and civil Society in the prestigious Murat Hall in Bari, 7- 2012 - Contemporary Art Fair Milano Novecento II Edition, Novegro Exhibition Park with the Image Gallery Spazio Arte of Cremona, 9- 2012 - Exhibition in the Town Hall of the Municipality of Sogliano Cavour on the 150th anniversary of which the name Cavour was given to the City of Sogliano, 8-11- 2012 - Exhibition certificate at the Magma Museum Roccamonfina (CE), -12- 2012 - 1st International Art Biennial of Palermo, 1-2- 2013 - Biennial Exhibition Expo d'Art in Monaco Montecarlo with Artexpo Gallery, 2- 2013 - 2nd Izmir International Art Biennial, Turkia, 5- 2013 - Exhibition Cascina Farsetti, Villa Doria Pamphili in the 7th International Painting and Graphics Prize Natale di Roma, 4-5- 2013 - Exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Monreale in the C.O.M.P.A. Peace in Art Prize, 6- 2013 - Exhibition Market at the Anacapri Art Gallery, Isle of Capri, 10- 2013 - International Contemporary Art Fair Art Shopping in Paris, Louvre Palace, France, 10- 2013 - 1st International Biennial with The Gold Hawk art competition, Palace Mifsud Municipality of Serradifalco (CL), 6- 2014 - Participation VI edition Present' Art Festival City of Shanghai, at the prestigious Shanghai PuDong National Library, sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Culture, the Italian Cultural Institute of Shanghai and the City of Firenze, China, 7-8- 2014 - Exhibition in the spaces of Trispace Gallery Bermondsey London, organized from Art Events La Maia Desnuda, England, 11-12- 2014 - Exhibition at the Villa Vecchia Museum in Roma in the National Painting Prize, Trophy of the 20 Regions, 3- 2015 - 1st International Biennial of Art of the Castles of Gera d'Adda, Inspired by Dialogue Castle Visconteo di Pagazzano with the Gallery Eclittica, 5-7- 2015 - International Art Exhibition, RISE Art Listen to the Heart, Castello Estense of Ferrara, organized by ArtTour International, 8- 2015 - Grand'Art International Exhibition, San Vidal Gallery, Venezia, 8- 2015 - Representation for the Year 2016 in the Art Upclose gallery in New York with exhibitions at the Spectrum Miami Art Fair, Architectural Digest Design Show and Artexpo New York, Year 2016 - Artexpo Salvador De Bahia V° Edition, Museu Casa Do Benin and Museu Eugenio Teixeira Leal, Brazil, 3-6- 2016 - XIV International Contemporary Art Fair “ArteGenova 2018” with Sabrina Falzone Gallery, 2- 2018 - Exhibition Market and Competition Russian Art Awards 2019, sponsored by the EuroArtAlliance and organized by the Eurasian Art Union in the Events Hall of the Danilovsky, City of Moscow, Russia, 3- 2019 - Visual Arts Exhibition Art a Bridge of Peace between Peoples at the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt organized by the Egyptian Office Cultural Relations in Roma, 9-2019 - Performance for the Year 2020 in the Paks Gallery in Vienna, Austria, with exhibitions in Vienna, in Hubertendorf Castle, Blindenmarkt and in Munich, Germany, Year 2020 Contemporary Art Exhibition With Love with the Lamedusa Cultural Association, Gubbio, 2- 2022 - International Exhibition Venezia in the Biennial Palace Albrizzi Capello with Italia Arte Gallery, 9- 2022 - Contemporary 2 International Exhibition, at the Armando Xhomo Art Gallery in Firenze edited by the Rossocinabro Gallery of Roma, 6- 2023 - International Art Exhibition For The Life at the Crocetti Museum, organized by the President Neoartgallery, Roma, 10-2023 - Exhibition of contemporary art in the rooms of the Belgioioso Castle, Pavia, with Newart.Promotion, 11-2023 - Participation in the art exhibition for Peace at the Grimandi Art Gallery in New York, 12- 2023 2- 2024 - International Art Exhibition at the MIIT Museum in Torino with the Italia Arte Gallery, 6- 2024 - Art fair, Art San Diego, California U.S.A., with the Artavita art Gallery, 11- 2024 - International Online Exhibition Top Artists with publication in the Volume Italian Artistic Agenda, Guide to Top of International Artists of contemporary art 25th Edition Universal Jubilee 2025 ” with Gallery the Collezionista of Roma”, 10- 2024 1- 2025
Most important awards, honors and recognitions received:
Written mention in the International Competition Vivi Sanremo Art in postcard, 12th edition, 2- 2010 - Quadrennial Award Gold Palm for Art with exhibition at Gallerie le Patio in Cannes, France, 10- 2010 - Stylistic Excellence Award Exclusive Recognition from the Art Diffusion Center, Palermo, 7- 2011 - Reporting Diploma in the 8th International Painting Competition G.B. Trophy Moroni, Bergamo, 11- 2011 - Vincent Van Gogh International Art Award in the name of the high merit of the professional results achieved and General Giuseppe Garibaldi Human Rights Award in the name of the historic bond, founded on the ethical and moral values of the exercise of law, between Peace and Freedom, High Recognition to Personalities of the world of art, science and culture in the International Exhibition of Art, Science and Culture, among the most important in Europe, Ass. Italy in Art, Room Bernini Grand Hotel Tiziano, Lecce, 12- 2011 - Diploma of Honor Golden Mercury Award for Art for Artistic and Cultural Merits from Artexpo' Gallery in Cesenatico 1- 2012 - Official Certificate of Appointment as International Academician of the Artistic Avant-garde from the I.A.A Academy Monreale, -6-2012 - Cavour Prize 2012 from the Municipality of Sogliano Cavour in collaboration with Italy in Art Lecce, 11- 2012 - Honorary Title of Meritorious Artist of the City of Sogliano Cavour on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the name Cavour to the City of Sogliano, Lecce, 11- 2012 - International Painting and Graphics Award Natale di Roma Cascina Farsetti (Villa Doria Pamphillj), 4- 2013 - Awarding of the Leone Dei Dogi Biennial Prize for Visual Arts by Artexpo' Gallery, Hotel Amadeus, Venezia, 4- 2013 - Award certificate, International World Peace Award from the G.O.M.P.A. Association. accredited to the United Nations, Palermo, 7-2013 - Trophy Cup 1st place in the 3rd International Sculpture Competition La Finestra Eterea with the work Pope John Paul II and Diploma of Merit with Poetry The History of Italy, Villa Ghirlanda Cinisello Balsamo (MI), 9- 2013 - Award for Artistic Merits of the Biennial Oscar for Visual Arts Artexpò Gallery Hotel De Paris, Monaco Montecarlo, 10-2013 - 1s place in the International Biennial Art Competition The Gold Hawk for the sculpture section with the work Pope John Paul II, Palazzo Mifsud Municipality of Serradifalco (CL), 6- 2014 - Certificate of Distinction in the XIII ANAP International Competition organized by the Accademia Nacional De Artes Plasticas, Brasil, 2014 - Certificate of Artistic Merit Dante Alighieri Literary Award, Guicciardini Bongianni Palace of Firenze, 2- 2015 - Diploma of Merit in the National Painting Award Trophy of the 20 Regions, Roma, 3- 2015 - Trophy for 1st place in the 4th International Sculpture Competition La Finestra Eterea with the work Crucifix and Cup 3rd place for painting with the work For a World Peace, Villa Ghirlanda Cinisello Balsamo (MI), 2015 - Awarding of the Oscar of Art Award, with the title of Doctor honoris causa in philosophy of art, registered in the Roll of Honor of Graduates of the Santa Sara Academy of Arts, Letters and Sciences, 11- 2015 - Certificate of Nomination and Thanks C. P. of Palemo of UNICEF for helping to the children of Nepal, Teatro Politeama (Pa), 11- 2015 - Awarding of the Certificate Artist in History Award by the President of EA Publisher, Monreale, 2-4- 2016 - Marc Shagall Award Villa Breda Museum with certificate of nomination as Academic Artist for Artistic Merits, Academic Center Maison d’Art of Padova, 2016 - 1st place for sculpture in the Oscar Award for Art and Culture 2016, with the following motivation To Merit for Art and Culture in the World, Santa Sara Academy of Arts, Letters, Sciences, 7- 2016 - Honorary Diploma in Ph. D Art and Philosophy of Modern Research, Santa Sara Academy of Arts, Letters, Sciences, 2016 - Awarding of the Title of Professor of Santa Sara Academy, Appointment Decree, 9- 2017 - Prestigious recognition to the career for professional artists and entrepreneurs Canaletto Prize 2018 for artistic merits, edited by Vittorio Sgarbi and Spoleto Arte, 2018 - Certificate of Merit, finalist in the Marino Marini Culture Award for figurative arts and in the Giosuè Carducci Award for poetry and fiction, in the 41st Edition of the Medusa Aurea International Trophy, awarded by the International Academy of Modern Art of Roma, Academic, Year 2017-2018 - Appointment as Member of Merit 2nd class Painter Category, National Section, International Academy of Modern Art of Roma, 6- 2018 - Honorary Diploma from the Il Convivio International Academy in the Antonello da Messina Figurative Arts Competition with the work Pope John Paul II, Catania, 4- 2018 - Gala De l'Art Award, for representing Italy in Art, Sponsored by the Italian Embassy, Hotel Fairmont Monaco Montecarlo, 6- 2018 - Certificate of Artistic Merit for participating in the Arsenali exhibition of Amalfi Mare Nostrum Amalfi, 9- 2018 - 1st place for artistic merits in the Grand Prix Art Festival in the World of the Maison d'Art Academic Center, Padova, 2019 - Stage Prize Diploma for 1st place in Expressionism, Santa Sara Academy of Arts, Letters, Sciences, 1- 2019 - Recognition of Merit for participation in the art event, Art a Bridge of Peace between Peoples in the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt organized by the Egyptian Cultural Relations Office in Roma, 9- 2019 - Certificate of Thanks for donating a painting to the Multiple Sclerosis project, Thirty Hours for Life, Faiano (SA), 5- 2019 - Jacopo da Ponte Award from Spoleto Art Factory, -05- 2020 - Artya Award 2020 from ARTtour International Artists For A Green Planet, New York, 12- 2020 - Cup for 1st place in the Pablo Picasso Academic Prize of the Maison d'Art Academic Center of Padova, 2021 - Honorary Academic Diploma of Protagonist of History with quotation of works and critical text of the painting oil on canvas Trees Academic Center Maison d'Art Padova, 2021 - Diploma of Honor with Mention of Commendation and souvenir medal in the VI edition of the Michelangelo Buonarroti International Prize 2021 for sculpture with exhibition of the work in the prestigious spaces of the Medici Area, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Palace Mediceo Seravezza, Lucca and Certificate of Merit for the Poetry, 11- 2021 - Certificate Luxembourg Art Prize, Year 2019, 2020, 2021 - 1st place in the Leonardo Da Vinci Academic Literary and Visual Arts Award, Maison d'Art Academic Center, 12- 2021 - Certificate of Merit from Italia Arte for the exhibition Venezia in Biennial, Palace Albrizzi Capello, 9- 2022 - Diploma Special Mention for applied stylistic research, International Sculptor Italy, in the International Career Awards Talent and Professionals, Costanza Foundation, Grand Hotel et Des Palmes of Palermo, 3- 2023 - Certificate of Donation of a sculpture to the Foundation for the support of "I'll take you!" during the International Art for Life Exhibition at the Crocetti Museum, organized by the President Neoartgallery, Roma, 10-2023 - 3rd place winner Certificate in the 2024 Competition Best Artist, Best Model, Best Fashion Brand, Best Entertainment, Best Business, organized by the Costanza Foundation and Pamela Quinzi owner and Director of Waves and Runways International Magazine New York/Dubai, 1- 2025 - Diploma of Honor with Commendation for the Section single Poetry in the VIII Edition of the International Michelangelo Buonarroti Prize 2024, Cardoso Palace of Culture, Stazzema (LU) February 2025 -
My works are situated in private collections, museums, public corporations and galleries.
Pages in art books and magazines:
Magazine of Art Boé 2010 - Volume Artistic Avant-Garde 2012 - Volume I° I The Great Masters 2010 - International Dictionary of the Artists World Wide Art Books 2011 - Special edition 150th Anniversary from the Unification of Italy to the Federalism of Art 1861-2011 - Volume Accademy of the Artistic Avant-Garde 2014 - Volume Collection Contemporary Art S.T.M. Italy 2013 - Magazine Over Art Section Great Masters 2013 - Catalog Publishing House Il Quadrato, Critical Analysis 2013 - Catalog International Atim's Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art 2014 - Intervista Magazine 2014 - Volume Award Dante Alighieri 2015 - Magazine of Art and Culture Effect Art 2015 - Volume of Art Sarart 2016 - Volume of Art Il Quadrato, from the Expo in Milano to the Biennial exhibition in Venezia 2015 - Catalogue the Masters of the Italian Art combined to the Oscar Award for the Art and the Culture 2016, Academy Santa Sara - Volume the Square from Lucio Fontana to the Jubilee of Pope Francesco 2016 - Annual Guida 2016 of Art in America - Volume Homage to the Biennial in Venice 2017, Academy Saint Sarah - Volume 4° History of the Art, Current Artistic International to comparison in the XXI Century, will be Filed in the Library Thomas J. Watson of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York 2018 - ARTtour International Magazine, New York 2017 and 2020, Artist For A Green Planet, To Create 4 Peace - Volume Art For Life 2023, Giorgio Bertozzi Neoartgallery - Waves and Runways International Magazine New York/Dubai, Special Edition 2025 Best Artists 2024, Pamela Quinzi owner and Director, 2025 – Volume Artistic Agenda of Italy, Guide to the Top of International Artists of Contemporary Art 25th Edition Universal Jubilee 2025, Gallery il Collezionista of Roma, 2025 -
Art Critics: Salvatore Russo – Vito Cracas – Maria Rosaria Belgiovine – Dino Marasà – Leandro Cavaglieri – Caterina Randazzo - Francesca Liotta – Sandro Serradifalco – Paolo Levi – Francesca Biondolillo – Rosario Medaglia - Sabrina Falzone - Prof. Giorgio Falossi – Alessandro Costanza - Jean Charles Spina – Prof. Rosario Pinto – Silvia Arfelli – Letizia Lanzarotti – Martina Caliri – Knight Flavio De Gregorio - Acc. Carla D'Aquino Mineo – Viviana Puello - Elena Iguera writer and others, you can see critiques on review press and events of my site web.
The Official Quotation 2024 of my works calculated on the basis of the formula officially adopted by the market = COEFFICIENT 4.5 (Artistrating® 45)
The Evaluation of my works by the Art Historian and Critic Acc. Carla d’Aquino Mineo President of the Maison d’Art Academic Center of Padova goes from Euro 3.000 to 40.000.
Published books:
2- 2015 paper monograph “Towards the Future” Author | Sergio Rapetti ISBN | 978-88-91176-43-1
3- 2017 paper monograph “Towards the Future of Light” Author | Sergio Rapetti ISBN | 978-88-92669-83-3
11- 2018 paper monograph “The Future of Light is Here!” Author | Sergio Rapetti
ISBN | 978-88-27855-31-7 writings in Italian and English, Volume included in Art, Cultural Heritage and Photography
1- 2022 pocket book “Qui ! La Luce. Here! The Light” Author | Sergio Rapetti
ISBN | 979-12-20380-44-7 writings in Italian and English, Volume included in the Philosophy/General Category
3- 2025 book “Biografia d’Autore Artista Sergio Rapetti” Author publication | Sergio Rapetti
ISBN | 9791222798660 Volume included in the Category Biography of Author ART/General
The Volumes in addition to being on global sale and in traditional bookstores such as Mondadori, IBS, etc., are also sold on Bookdealer, an e-commerce site that brings together more than 720 independent bookstores in all Italy.
If you had to describe yourself, what would you say?
As an artist I always leave to others to judge, I can not complain, since my path is very rich in awards and important international recognitions and with an important quotation of my works. My works are situated in private collections, museums, public corporations and galleries. As for the rest I am widely satisfied, I have a beautiful family, in my working life I have always tried to learn about everything and I must say that I have reached a degree of discreet knowledge in various areas that I am not here to list, otherwise it would take many pages.
When did you start to perceive yourself as an artist?
I started to perceive myself as an Artist at once, I remember my first picture representing a female nude and it came very beautiful, then I moved on to a landscape and it was the same beautiful and since then I proceeded in my artistic creations more than forty years.
What do you feel when you create?
A great satisfaction, especially if the work is important, and a great pleasure for creating something that will remain in time, since all my paintings are oil on canvas without addition of additives, so colour is absorbed by the canvas in depth unlike who paints with acrylic colours, paint or unlike who uses additives with oil; it is much easier to paint but they are works that will be subject to crumbling very soon. I would also like to point out that my paintings are x-ray proof as they are painted directly on the canvas, without being sketched in pencil or painted over existing photos as many artists do today.
What is the implicit message in your works, what do you want to convey?
Each work has its own message, a landscape can express the beauty of a certain place, hoping it will remain unaltered for future generations, a figurative can remember a past time or present and all in the perspective of safeguard of our green Planet, spoilt every day by vultures greedy for money. Then there are works that I call impressionist abstractionism, which have a philosophical message much more important than those previous, because they are directed to the common good, to Peace, to Love, to Justice, to the most important respect in all its forms against selfishnesses that it seems govern more and more our mind.
I want also to remember that my works of paintings, both figurative that abstracts impressionistic, they are all understandable unlike the pure abstract very easy to paint, I have also done works of this kind, which sincerely are feeble things as they say; then there are the sculptures carved with gouges and hammer strictly on a single piece of hawthorn or ash wood and ranging from female nudes to religious figures. Some sculptures have an important philosophical meaning attached turned to the common good, such as some poems and my book entitled Here! The Light. Here! The Light is on sale globally, listed in the Philosophy / General category with the indication of the only possible way to go towards a future of Light, with the hope that the Governments of the world think to give it to us and the generations that will come before it is too late.
What is your dream or aspiration, what do you really want?
My dream is to see a more human world, a world of Peace, of Love, of Liberty, and very important is the Respect that must prevail between the Peoples of different cultures and ideas who live on this our Planet called Earth if we want to achieve World Peace, and very important is the Respect that must prevail between the Peoples of different cultures and ideas who live on this Planet of ours called Earth if we want to achieve World Peace, with some of my works of Paintings, of Sculptures and of Poems I try to carry on the culture of good as I can do in my small way, considering me a drop, I hope together with more and more other drops in this sea of the world where it seems that the only space left to our mind is that of insatiable egoism.
In this regard, I invite you to read my books on global sale from the monograph of 296 pages entitled The Future of Light is Here! ISBN | 978-88-27855-31-7 Volume included in Art, Cultural Heritage and Photography and that philosophical entitled Qui! La Luce. Here! The Light ISBN | 979-12-20380-44-7 Volume included in the Category of Philosophy/General and my Author Biography Artist Sergio Rapetti ISBN | 9791222798660 Volume included in the Category Biography of Author ART/General.
As for my aspiration, I sincerely believe to have what every artist has, that is to leave a present and future mark on the coming generations.
The important philosophical meanings of the works and Events can be read on my sito web and on Facebook