Luigi Serafini is an architect, ceramist, glazier, painter, sculptor, designer, opera director, set designer, and critic who works in Italy and abroad. In 2007, the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan dedicated a successful mostra ontological (ontological exhibition) to him. He has illustrated works by Franz Kafka and Michael Ende.
"...the book really does live up to its reputation: The drawings
are in turn hilarious, disturbing, bizarre and, sometimes, just
flat-out incomprehensible, but all of them are annotated in
Serafini's script." -Dangerous Minds
"It's not the sort of thing that easily lends itself to
classification, but probably the most accurate way to describe it
would be as an encyclopedia of an invented alien civilization...the
Codex is still a disorienting and provocative vision of inscrutable
otherness." -Slate.com
"Codex Seraphinianus is an art book in the most direct
sense--there are big, beautiful drawings accompanied by
indecipherable letterforms--and it is impossible to "read" in a
literal way. The text has remained a mystery all these years, and
perhaps that's part of its draw as an art object." -FineBooks
Magazine
"Is the best art book of the year one that is not only impossible
for me to review, but one that is probably equally impossible for
you to understand? It's a handsome, hilarious and enduring puzzle
that not only features wonderful art in it, but in its entirety
captures another kind of human creativity--the encyclopedia, the
result of compiling and collecting, and an unlikely medium for
artists." -North Adams Transcript Codex Seraphinianus
History's Most Bizarre and Beautiful Encyclopedia, Brought Back to
Life...a weird and wonderful masterpiece of art and philosophical
provocation on the precipice of the information age....Undoubtedly
one of the most intricate and beautiful art books ever created.
-Brain Pickings "Wow. One of the strangest and most
beautiful books ever published." -Faerie Tales
"Codex Seraphinianus is in a sense the most elaborate book
of doodles ever made. What makes it much more than that is not just
the quality of Serafini's drawings and the superior book-making
craft, but its brilliant structure. Part of the genius of the
Codex is that there is enough information to be familiar but
not enough to make any sense." -Spectrum Culture
"The intense strangeness of Codex Seraphinianus belies the
joyous feel of the artistry. Even the oddest, most unnerving images
are rendered with pastel beauty, and a softness that makes them
almost endearing." -KQED
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